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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Q74. Government should monitor private communication vs right to privacy (Q74)

Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1072

End: 1073

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

74. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: Government should be able to monitor private communications, for example on mobile phones, to make sure that people are not plotting violence.
Statement 2: People should have the right to communicate in private without a government agency reading or listening to what they are saying.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree Very Strongly with Statement 1	281	23.4%
2	Agree with Statement 1	127	10.6%
3	Agree with Statement 2	183	15.3%
4	Agree Very Strongly with Statement 2	571	47.6%
5	Agree with Neither	22	1.8%
8	Refused to answer	3	0.3%
9	Don't know	13	1.1%

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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