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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Q44. Essential characteristics of democracy: equality, fair election, etc. (Q44)

Data file: saf_r5_data_july_2015

Overview

Valid: 2399

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

44. Many things may be desirable, but not all of them are essential characteristics of democracy. If you have to choose only one of the things that I am going to read, which one would you choose as the most essential characteristic of democracy?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Government narrows the gap between the rich and the poor	612	25.5%
2	People choose government leaders in free and fair elections	794	33.1%
3	Government does not waste any public money	386	16.1%
4	People are free to express their political views openly	389	16.2%
8	None of these	169	7%
9	Don't know	49	2%

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.

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