Youth Day: Does less engaged mean less empowered? Political engagement lags among Africa’s youth
afrobarometer news-releases (select-countries=nigeria)
Political and civic engagement by African youth is declining and is particularly weak among young women, according to new Afrobarometer survey findings.
AD43: Citizens hold mixed views on Nigeria's international relations
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The international community is watching with intense interest as Nigeria’s new government settles in and begins to pursue its development priorities, which are centred on fighting corruption;...
AD29: Security and armed extremism in Nigeria: Setting a new agenda
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Widespread violence and crime made for a tense build-up to Nigeria’s recent elections, with large swaths of the country effectively under the control of terrorists and frequent headlines...
WP149: Solidarity with a sharp edge: Communal conflict and local collective action in rural Nigeria
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This paper provides new insights into the link between the experience of violent conflict and local collective action. I use temporal and geographical information from four rounds of survey data...
AD18: Nigeria’s pre-election pulse: Mixed views on democracy and accountability
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Nigeria’s 2015 general elections, delayed by six weeks because of scaled-up military operations against terrorism, are likely to be the most competitive in the country’s history (see...
AD11: Nigeria heads for closest election on record
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Nigerians will go to the polls on 14 February to elect their president and national legislators to four-year terms, followed two weeks later by elections for many governors and state assemblies....
Merged Round 5 Codebook (34 Countries) (2011-2013)
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Merged Data Codebook for the Round 5 Afrobarometer Survey. Last updated: July 2015
Merged Round 4 Codebook (20 countries) (2008)
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Merged Data Codebook for the Round 4 Afrobarometer Survey.
Merged Round 3 Codebook (18 countries) (2005)
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Merged Data Codebook for the Round 3 Afrobarometer Survey.
Merged Round 2 Codebook (16 countries) (2004)
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Merged Data Codebook for the Round 2 Afrobarometer Survey.
Majority of Nigerians see cross-border movement as difficult
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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)
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The questionnaire for the Round 6 survey in Nigeria.
Nigeria Round 5 summary of results
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Summary of results for the Afrobarometer Round 5 survey in Nigeria in 2012
Nigeria Round 5 codebook (2012)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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