Afrobarometer Round 5: The Quality of Democracy and Governance in Sierra Leone, 2012 (ICPSR 35562)
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Ibrahim Sesay, Campaign for Good Governance (Sierra Leone);
Mariam Deen-Swarray, ITASCAP (Sierra Leone);
E. Gyimah-Boadi, Ghana Center for Democratic Development;
Michael Bratton, Michigan State University;
Robert Mattes, Institute for Democracy in South Africa;
Carolyn Logan, Michigan State University;
Boniface Dulani, University of Malawi
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35562.v1
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The Afrobarometer is a comparative series of public attitude surveys that collects and disseminates data regarding Africans' views on democracy, governance, the economic, civil society, and related issues. This particular data collection was concerned with the attitudes and opinions of the citizens of Sierra Leone, and also includes a number of "country-specific questions" designed specifically for the Sierra Leone survey. The data are collected from nationally representative samples in face-to-face interviews in the language of the respondent's choice. Standard topics for the Afrobarometer include attitudes toward and evaluations of democracy, governance and economic conditions, political participation, national identity, and social capital. In addition, Round 5 surveys included special modules on taxation; gender issues; crime, conflict and insecurity; globalization; and social service delivery. The surveys also collect a large set of socio-demographic indicators such as age, gender, education level, poverty level, language and ethnicity, and religious affiliation, as well as political party affiliation. Afrobarometer Round 5 surveys were implemented in 35 countries.
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Additional information regarding the Afrobarometer Survey Series can be found at the Afrobarometer Web site.
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The Afrobarometer uses a clustered, stratified, multi-stage, area probability sample design. The sample is designed as a representative cross-section of all citizens of voting age in a given country. The goal is to give every adult citizen an equal and known chance of selection for interview. This objective is reached by (a) strictly applying random selection methods at every stage of sampling and by (b) applying sampling with probability proportionate to population size wherever possible. A randomly selected sample of 1,200 cases allows inferences to national adult populations with a margin of sampling error of no more than plus or minus 3 percent with a confidence level of 95 percent. If the sample size is increased to 2,400, the confidence interval shrinks to plus or minus 2 percent. The sample size for the 2012 Sierra Leone Afrobarometer was 1,190 respondents.
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Citizens of Sierra Leone aged 18 years or older.
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2016-02-16
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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
- Sesay, Ibrahim, Mariam Deen-Swarray, E. Gyimah-Boadi, Michael Bratton, Robert Mattes, Carolyn Logan, and Boniface Dulani. Afrobarometer Round 5: The Quality of Democracy and Governance in Sierra Leone, 2012. ICPSR35562-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-02-16. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35562.v1
2016-02-16 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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The data are not weighted. However, this collection includes a weight variable (WITHINWT) which should be used when calculating national-level statistics. Cases are weighted to account for individual selection probabilities. For additional information on weights, please see the Afrobarometer Round 5 Survey Manual.
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