Afrobarometer Survey 2008
Merged Round 4 Data (20 Countries)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Botswana...and 17 more, 2008

Reference ID

AFR_2008_AFB-MR4_v02_M

Producer(s)

Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Michigan State University (MSU), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)

Collection(s)

Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Q42a. Extent of democracy (Q42A)

Data file: merged_r4_data.dta

Overview

Valid: 27713

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 3.45162919929275

Standard deviation: 1.9818879740291

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: -1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	15	0.1%
1	Not a democracy	1875	6.8%
2	A democracy, with major problems	7338	26.5%
3	A democracy, but with minor problems	8249	29.8%
4	A full democracy	7310	26.4%
8	Do not understand question/democracy	1202	4.3%
9	Don't know	1724	6.2%
998	Refused	0	0%

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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