Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Botswana, 2019

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BWA_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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Afrobarometer

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Apr 28, 2021

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Apr 28, 2021

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Q45. Higher taxes with more govt services vs. lower taxes with fewer govt services (Q45)

Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 582

End: 583

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now let us talk about the tax system in this country.

Literal question

Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: It is better to pay higher taxes if it means that there will be more services provided by government.
Statement 2: It is better to pay lower taxes, even if it means there will be fewer services provided by government.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree Very Strongly with Statement 1	370	30.8%
2	Agree with Statement 1	225	18.8%
3	Agree with Statement 2	179	14.9%
4	Agree Very Strongly with Statement 2	299	24.9%
5	Agree with Neither	67	5.6%
8	Refused to answer	2	0.2%
9	Don't know	58	4.8%

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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