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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Q45. Essential characteristics of democracy: law and order, job, etc (Q45)

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

45. And here is another list. Which one of these things would you choose as the most essential characteristic of democracy?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Government ensures law and order	515	21.5%
2	Media is free to criticize the things government does	413	17.2%
3	Government ensures job opportunities for all	924	38.5%
4	Multiple parties compete fairly in elections	349	14.5%
8	None of these	143	6%
9	Don't know	55	2.3%

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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