Merged Round 2 Codebook (16 countries) (2004)
afrobarometer survey-resources (select-countries=nigeria)
Merged Data Codebook for the Round 2 Afrobarometer Survey.
Majority of Nigerians see cross-border movement as difficult
afrobarometer news-releases (select-countries=nigeria)
A majority of Nigerians value their right to move freely within West Africa but say that crossing borders for work or trade is difficult.
Nigeria Round 6 questionnaire (2015)
afrobarometer survey-resources (select-countries=nigeria)
The questionnaire for the Round 6 survey in Nigeria.
Nigeria Round 5 summary of results
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Summary of results for the Afrobarometer Round 5 survey in Nigeria in 2012
Nigeria Round 5 codebook (2012)
afrobarometer survey-resources (select-countries=nigeria)
Nigeria Round 5 questionnaire (2013)
afrobarometer survey-resources (select-countries=nigeria)
The questionnaire for the Round 5 survey in Nigeria.
WP139: Exploiting the poor: Bureaucratic corruption and poverty in Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Corruption is a major source of slow development in Africa – the poorest region of the world. While extant research has focused on the causes and consequences of corruption at the macro-level,...
WP137: Perceptions versus reality: Assessing popular evaluations of election quality in Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
In this paper, I assess the determinants and validity of citizens’ perceptions of election quality. First, I suggest that citizens’ evaluation of the performance of election-related...
WP136: Political participation of Africa’s youth: Turnout, partisanship and protest
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Yet, despite their numerical importance and the historical relevance of generational identities...
WP133: Too poor to care? The salience of AIDS in Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Sub-Saharan Africa is the part of the world that is most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. Yet, surveys of attitudes to AIDS across African countries show that most people do not attach great...
WP129: Mapping ideologies in African landscapes
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Candidate appeals on the basis of what Western observers would call ideology are rare in contemporary Africa. Given this general absence of ideological cues, top-down approaches to the study of...
WP130: When politicians cede control of resources: Land, chiefs and coalition-building in Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Why would politicians give up power over the allocation of critical resources to community leaders? This article examines why many African governments have ceded power over the allocation of land...
WP128: The roots of resilience: Exploring popular support for African traditional authorities
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
By 2010, it has become clear that in most of Africa, traditional authorities are a resilient lot, just as much a part of the “modern” political landscape as any constitution, legislature or...
WP127: Voting intentions in Africa: Ethnic, economic or partisan?
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
This paper offers a first comprehensive account of popular voting intentions in Africa’s new electoral democracies. With reference to comparative aggregate and survey data from 16 countries, we...
WP126: Why do citizens assent to pay tax? Legitimacy, taxation and the African state
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Why do citizens assent to pay tax? On what condition do private individuals agree to commit their personal income to a public fund at the disposal of the state? What are the reciprocal...
WP123: Democratizing the measurement of democratic quality: Public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Diamond and Morlino (2005) propose a quality of democracy framework that includes eight dimensions, but they suggest that only one of these – responsiveness – is susceptible to measurement...
WP122: Anchoring the “D-Word” in Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Efforts to do comparative research on political attitudes have been complicated by varying understandings of “democracy.” The Afrobarometer is exploring new techniques to overcome this...
WP121: Political participation in Africa: Participatory inequalities and the role of resources
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
The aim of this paper is to examine the role of individual resource endowments for explaining individual and group variation in African political participation. Drawing on new data for more than...
WP120: Urban-rural differences in support for incumbents across Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Across sub-Saharan Africa support for incumbent governments is significantly higher among rural residents than urbanites, although the magnitude of this difference varies across countries. In this...
WP119: Citizen perceptions of local government responsiveness in sub-Saharan Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
This paper examines local government performance from the perspective of users, with special attention to questions of responsiveness, representation and accountability. The results both confirm...
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