Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Ghana, 2019

Reference ID

GHA_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 28, 2021

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Q88. Whom do traditional leaders serve (Q88)

Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1332

End: 1333

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion?
Statement 1: Traditional leaders mostly look out for what is best for the people in their communities.
Statement 2: Traditional leaders mostly serve the interests of politicians and government officials.
Statement 3: Traditional leaders mostly look out for their own personal interests.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Do not agree with any of these statements	58	2.4%
1	Statement 3: Own personal interests	937	39%
2	Statement 2: Interests of politicians and government officials	219	9.1%
3	Statement 1: What is best for the people in their communities	1087	45.3%
8	Refused	6	0.3%
9	Don't know	93	3.9%

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

Read out statements.
Only one option to be chosen.

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