Afrobarometer Survey 2017, Round 7

Nigeria, 2017

Reference ID

NGA_2017_AFB-R7_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)

Collection(s)

Afrobarometer Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Apr 26, 2021

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Q82C_NIG. Main reason Nigerians join extremist groups (Q82C_NIG)

Data file: nig_r7_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1600

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 99

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 826

End: 827

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

In your opinion, what is the main reason why some Nigerians join extremist groups?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Unemployment or lack of opportunities	479	29.9%
2	Their religious beliefs	179	11.2%
3	Poverty	444	27.8%
4	A sense of injustice or mistreatment of their community by government	126	7.9%
5	Lack of education	125	7.8%
6	The ineffectiveness of the government	149	9.3%
7	Coercion / they are forced to join	48	3%
95	Other	24	1.5%
98	Refused	0	0%
99	Don’t know	26	1.6%

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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