Survey question from The 2022 Arab Opinion Index
Category: GOVERNANCE & POLITICAL SYSTEMS — State performance
Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following: Although government taxes are important, most of them are spent on the salaries and expenses of political officials. 1: Strongly agree, 2: Somewhat agree, 3: Somewhat disagree, 4: Strongly disagree
Response scale: 1 to 4
Responses by country (mean, answer distribution):
Egypt: (2.31, {'3.0': '30.97%', '2.0': '36.60%', '1.0': '21.72%', '4.0': '10.72%'})
Iraq: (1.82, {'2.0': '27.42%', '1.0': '51.57%', '4.0': '12.33%', '3.0': '8.68%'})
Jordan: (2.06, {'4.0': '16.60%', '2.0': '26.72%', '1.0': '41.89%', '3.0': '14.79%'})
Lebanon: (1.66, {'1.0': '62.26%', '3.0': '8.89%', '4.0': '9.91%', '2.0': '18.93%'})
Libya: (1.87, {'1.0': '50.79%', '3.0': '10.67%', '4.0': '13.44%', '2.0': '25.10%'})
Morocco: (2.37, {'4.0': '16.00%', '3.0': '26.13%', '1.0': '21.60%', '2.0': '36.27%'})
Tunisia: (2.04, {'1.0': '54.37%', '4.0': '25.95%', '2.0': '13.30%', '3.0': '6.39%'})
Algeria: (2.47, {'2.0': '34.93%', '1.0': '21.23%', '3.0': '19.63%', '4.0': '24.20%'})
Saudi Arabia: (2.68, {'1.0': '22.54%', '3.0': '17.75%', '2.0': '23.50%', '4.0': '36.21%'})
Sudan: (2.28, {'2.0': '34.72%', '4.0': '17.08%', '1.0': '27.08%', '3.0': '21.11%'})
Palestine: (2.16, {'4.0': '15.30%', '3.0': '14.91%', '2.0': '40.11%', '1.0': '29.68%'})
Kuwait: (No data, {})
Mauritania: (2.11, {'1.0': '27.78%', '2.0': '41.41%', '3.0': '22.47%', '4.0': '8.33%'})
Qatar: (No data, {})