Afrobarometer Survey 2021-2023
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Africa, 2021 - 2023

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afr-ab-afr39-2021-2023-v1

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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)

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q23. support for democracy (q23)

Data file: afr39-2021-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 53444

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 315

loc_end_pos: 316

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	missing	0	0%
1	statement 3: for someone like me, it doesnâ€™t matter what kind of government we have.	8103	15.2%
2	statement 2: in some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable.	8043	15%
3	statement 1: democracy is preferable to any other kind of government.	35896	67.2%
8	refused	116	0.2%
9	don't know	1286	2.4%

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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