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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Q82EPT2_NIG. Best way for government to address armed extremists.2nd response (Q82EPT2_NIG)

Data file: nig_r7_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1600

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 96

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 982

End: 983

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 96

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

In your opinion, what do you think would be the best way for the government to be more effective in addressing the problem of armed extremists in our country? And what would be the second most important reason?
- 2nd response

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	The government is already effective in combatting them	30	1.9%
2	Strengthen the military response or military capabilities	186	11.6%
3	Working together with traditional leaders to address the issue	99	6.2%
4	Working together with religious leaders to address the issue	132	8.3%
5	Improve the economy and create more jobs	353	22.1%
6	Improve education standards	192	12%
7	Govern more effectively / provide better government services	150	9.4%
8	Treat the communities the extremists come from more fairly	61	3.8%
9	Give more power to local governments to make their own decisions	41	2.6%
10	Cooperate more with other countries in our region to address the issue	62	3.9%
11	Cooperate more with the international community to address the issue	39	2.4%
12	Increase resources distributed to states and local communities, especially those from oil resource area	41	2.6%
13	Split the country	24	1.5%
95	Some other answer	17	1.1%
96	No further Answer	173	10.8%

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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