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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Q57. Essential characteristics of democracy: legislature, government, people etc. (Q57)

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

57. Let me ask you again about the most 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	The legislature closely monitors the actions of the Presiden	468	19.5%
2	Government provides basic necessities, like food, clothing a	683	28.5%
3	People are free to form organizations to influence governmen	642	26.8%
4	Public services, such as roads, water or sewerage, work well	322	13.4%
8	None of these	206	8.6%
9	Donâ€™t know / Haven't heard enough	78	3.3%

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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