Afrobarometer Survey 2011, Round 5

South Africa, 2011

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ZAF_2011_AFB-R5_v01_M

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The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Michigan State University (MSU)

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Afrobarometer

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Q32. Support for democracy (Q32)

Data file: saf_r5_data_july_2015

Overview

Valid: 2399

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

32. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	For someone like me, it doesn't matter what kind of governme	259	10.8%
2	In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be pr	346	14.4%
3	Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government	1736	72.4%
9	Don't know	58	2.4%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

Probe for strength of opinion: Do you agree or agree very strongly?

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