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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Q57b. Spread false information: politicians and political parties (Q57B)

Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 916

End: 917

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

57. Please tell me how often, in this country, you think people from each of the following groups spread information that they know is false?
- Politicians and political parties

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Never	128	10.7%
1	Rarely	139	11.6%
2	Sometimes	279	23.3%
3	Often	578	48.2%
8	Refused	2	0.2%
9	Don't know/ Haven’t heard	74	6.2%

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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