Youth, Emotional Energy, and Political Violence: The Cases of Egypt and Saudi Arabia Survey, 2005

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STRHEAD

I'm going to describe various types of political systems and ask what you think about each as a way of governing this country. For each one, would you say it is a very good, fairly good, fairly bad or very bad way of governing this country? Having a strong head of government who does not have to bother with parliament and elections.
  1) Very good
  2) Fairly good
  3) Fairly bad
  4) Very bad
  9) DK
  97) NA
  999) RA

Category Frequency Percentage Cumulative Percentage Z-Score
Very good 32 3.4% 3.4% -.18
Fairly good 143 15.4% 18.9% -.17
Fairly bad 452 48.7% 67.6% -.17
Very bad 244 26.3% 93.9% -.16
DK 30 3.2% 97.1% -.13
NA 3 .3% 97.4% .43
RA 24 2.6% 100% 6.13

Variable Comparisons


Age (I-AGE)

18-20 21-23 24-25 TOTAL
Very good 3.9%
17
2.2%
5
4.3%
10
3.5%
32
Fairly good 15.7%
69
16.5%
38
15.5%
36
15.8%
143
Fairly bad 49.2%
216
51.1%
118
50.2%
117
49.9%
451
Very bad 27.3%
120
26.0%
60
27.5%
64
27.0%
244
DK 3.4%
15
3.9%
9
2.6%
6
3.3%
30
NA 0.5%
2
0.4%
1
0.0%
0
0.3%
3
RA 0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
TOTAL 100.0%
439
100.0%
231
100.0%
233

903


Education (I-EDUC)

No formal education Primary School Incomplete Secondary School Complete Secondary School Some university-level education, without degree University-level education, with degree TOTAL
Very good 4.8%
1
0.0%
0
3.0%
12
8.0%
7
3.4%
5
4.0%
7
3.6%
32
Fairly good 14.3%
3
18.3%
13
14.0%
56
13.6%
12
19.9%
29
17.2%
30
15.9%
143
Fairly bad 61.9%
13
49.3%
35
50.4%
202
35.2%
31
55.5%
81
50.0%
87
49.8%
449
Very bad 19.0%
4
28.2%
20
28.2%
113
40.9%
36
18.5%
27
25.3%
44
27.1%
244
DK 0.0%
0
2.8%
2
4.5%
18
2.3%
2
2.1%
3
2.9%
5
3.3%
30
NA 0.0%
0
1.4%
1
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.7%
1
0.6%
1
0.3%
3
RA 0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
TOTAL 100.0%
21
100.0%
71
100.0%
401
100.0%
88
100.0%
146
100.0%
174

901


Gender (I-GENDER)

Male Female TOTAL
Very good 3.3%
16
3.8%
16
3.5%
32
Fairly good 18.2%
88
13.1%
55
15.8%
143
Fairly bad 46.3%
224
54.2%
227
49.9%
451
Very bad 29.5%
143
24.1%
101
27.0%
244
DK 2.3%
11
4.5%
19
3.3%
30
NA 0.4%
2
0.2%
1
0.3%
3
RA 0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
TOTAL 100.0%
484
100.0%
419

903


Region (I-REGION)

Cairo Alexandria El-Menya Jeddah Riyadh Damman/Khobar TOTAL
Very good 3.5%
10
3.1%
9
4.0%
13
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
3.5%
32
Fairly good 19.4%
56
17.9%
52
10.8%
35
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
15.8%
143
Fairly bad 51.6%
149
47.4%
138
50.8%
165
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
49.9%
452
Very bad 23.5%
68
26.8%
78
30.2%
98
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
27.0%
244
DK 1.7%
5
4.5%
13
3.7%
12
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
3.3%
30
NA 0.0%
0
0.3%
1
0.6%
2
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
0.3%
3
RA 0.3%
1
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
0
0.1%
1
TOTAL 100.0%
289
100.0%
291
100.0%
325
100.0%
0
100.0%
0
100.0%
0

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