Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Kenya, 2019

Reference ID

KEN_2019_AFB-R8_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)

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Afrobarometer

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Apr 26, 2021

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Q32. Elected government free to do whatever the people want vs bound by laws (Q32)

Data file: ken_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 360

End: 361

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: A government that enjoys the support of the people should be free to do whatever the people want, even if it is outside the law.
Statement 2: The actions of any government, no matter how popular it is, must always follow the law.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	135	5.6%
2	Agree with 1	133	5.5%
3	Agree with 2	407	17%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	1708	71.2%
5	Agree with neither	9	0.4%
8	Refused	1	0%
9	Don't know	7	0.3%

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.

Interviewer instructions

Interviewer: Probe for strength of opinion: Do you agree or agree very strongly?

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