Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Uganda, 2019

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UGA_2019_AFB-R8_v01_M

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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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Q79a_UGA. Most important characteristic in President in election decision (Q79A_UGA)

Data file: uga_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1185

End: 1186

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

There are many reasons why people vote for certain presidential candidates. These include characteristics of the candidate or their qualities. How about you, which of the following factors would you say is the most important in your voting decision for president?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	None of the above	6	0.5%
1	The candidate’s party or manifesto	381	31.8%
2	The candidate’s age or personality	154	12.8%
3	The candidate’s home area or ethnic group	31	2.6%
4	The gifts or money offered by the candidate or their agents	26	2.2%
5	The candidate’s leadership qualities or experience	578	48.2%
6	Some other reason	17	1.4%
8	Refused	2	0.2%
9	Don’t know	5	0.4%

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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