Afrobarometer Survey 2021
Round 8

Eswatini, 2021

Reference ID

SWZ_2021_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)

Collection(s)

Afrobarometer

Metadata

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Nov 01, 2022

Last modified

Nov 01, 2022

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COV-21. Censor media during pandemic (COV21)

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: 872

End: 873

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 97

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

When the country is facing a public health emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic, do you agree or disagree that it is justified for the government to temporarily limit democracy or democratic freedoms by taking the following measures?
COV-21. Censoring media reporting

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Strongly disagree	191	15.9%
2	Disagree	289	24.1%
3	Neither agree nor disagree	46	3.8%
4	Agree	487	40.6%
5	Strongly agree	143	11.9%
7	Not applicable	0	0%
8	Refused	1	0.1%
9	Don't know	28	2.3%
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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