Afrobarometer Survey 2021
Round 8

Eswatini, 2021

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SWZ_2021_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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Nov 01, 2022

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COV-18. Prayer more effective than COVID-19 vaccine (COV18)

Data file: afrobarometer_release-data_esw_r8_en_2021-09-21.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 97

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 866

End: 867

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 97

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

COV-18. Some people think that prayer is an effective way to alter events in the world. Others put more faith in science to solve problems. Some people believe in both. What about you? Do you think that prayer is more effective or less effective than a vaccine would be in preventing COVID-19 infection?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Much more effective	250	20.8%
2	Somewhat more effective	280	23.3%
3	About the same effectiveness	317	26.4%
4	Somewhat less effective	214	17.8%
5	Much less effective	93	7.8%
7	Not applicable	0	0%
8	Refused	10	0.8%
9	Don't know	21	1.8%
97	Not applicable (COV1=0, 8 or 9)	15	1.3%

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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