Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset, 1988-2010

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M23C I'm going to describe various types of political systems and ask what you think about each as a way of governing [country]. For each one, would you say it is a very good, fairly good, fairly bad or very bad way of governing [country]? Having experts rather than government make decisions according to what is best for the country   1) Very good   2) Good   3) Bad   4) Very bad

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very good	10941	29.5%	29.5%	-1.17
Good	16375	44.1%	73.6%	-.07
Bad	6497	17.5%	91.1%	1.04
Very bad	3316	8.9%	100%	2.14

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Household income Religion Sex

Age (I-AGE)

	18-24 years old	25-34 years old	35-44 years old	45-54 years old	55-64 years old	65+ years old	TOTAL
Very good	28.1% 2458	29.2% 3160	30.1% 2480	30.2% 1507	30.3% 783	33.5% 519	29.5% 10907
Good	43.4% 3794	44.5% 4812	44.3% 3650	44.0% 2191	45.6% 1178	43.0% 665	44.1% 16290
Bad	18.4% 1613	17.6% 1906	16.9% 1397	17.4% 868	16.6% 430	14.9% 231	17.5% 6445
Very bad	10.1% 884	8.7% 937	8.7% 721	8.4% 416	7.5% 194	8.6% 133	8.9% 3285
TOTAL	100.0% 8749	100.0% 10815	100.0% 8248	100.0% 4982	100.0% 2585	100.0% 1548	36927

Education (I-EDUC)

	Illiterate	Elementary and primary (includes elementary school so goes from first grade to eighth grade)	Secondary	BA (completion of college degree)	MA or higher	TOTAL
Very good	33.2% 2241	28.4% 2986	28.9% 2718	28.5% 2321	30.0% 587	29.5% 10853
Good	43.6% 2944	46.2% 4862	45.2% 4253	41.4% 3371	40.3% 787	44.1% 16217
Bad	14.7% 996	17.6% 1856	17.5% 1650	19.4% 1579	17.2% 337	17.5% 6418
Very bad	8.5% 576	7.7% 812	8.4% 786	10.6% 866	12.4% 243	8.9% 3283
TOTAL	100.0% 6757	100.0% 10516	100.0% 9407	100.0% 8137	100.0% 1954	36771

Household income (I-INCOME)

	First quintile	Second quintile	Third quintile	Fourth quintile	Fifth quintile	TOTAL
Very good	31.1% 1247	30.0% 1731	29.6% 1347	27.6% 2201	29.9% 2887	29.5% 9413
Good	44.1% 1766	44.4% 2559	45.8% 2088	44.9% 3584	43.3% 4181	44.4% 14178
Bad	16.2% 650	16.9% 975	17.7% 806	17.9% 1428	17.3% 1666	17.3% 5525
Very bad	8.6% 344	8.7% 503	6.9% 313	9.5% 761	9.5% 918	8.9% 2839
TOTAL	100.0% 4007	100.0% 5768	100.0% 4554	100.0% 7974	100.0% 9652	31955

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Muslim	Christian	Jew	Other	TOTAL
Very good	29.2% 10398	39.7% 449	18.4% 16	17.9% 5	29.5% 10868
Good	44.3% 15784	37.4% 423	57.5% 50	42.9% 12	44.1% 16269
Bad	17.7% 6295	13.3% 150	19.5% 17	25.0% 7	17.5% 6469
Very bad	8.9% 3157	9.7% 110	4.6% 4	14.3% 4	8.9% 3275
TOTAL	100.0% 35634	100.0% 1132	100.0% 87	100.0% 28	36881

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very good	30.0% 5715	28.9% 5222	29.5% 10937
Good	42.8% 8140	45.5% 8221	44.1% 16361
Bad	17.6% 3352	17.3% 3133	17.5% 6485
Very bad	9.6% 1829	8.2% 1485	8.9% 3314
TOTAL	100.0% 19036	100.0% 18061	37097