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 paid as salaries to employees of the bloated government apparatus. 1: Strongly agree, 2: Somewhat agree, 3: Somewhat disagree, 4: Strongly disagree
Response scale: 1 to 4
Responses by country (mean, answer distribution):
Egypt: (2.32, {'3.0': '29.65%', '2.0': '39.36%', '4.0': '11.04%', '1.0': '19.95%'})
Iraq: (2.06, {'2.0': '34.43%', '1.0': '37.72%', '4.0': '15.44%', '3.0': '12.41%'})
Jordan: (2.21, {'1.0': '30.06%', '4.0': '17.03%', '2.0': '36.39%', '3.0': '16.52%'})
Lebanon: (1.85, {'2.0': '25.13%', '4.0': '9.54%', '1.0': '49.87%', '3.0': '15.46%'})
Libya: (1.90, {'4.0': '13.39%', '1.0': '46.85%', '2.0': '30.12%', '3.0': '9.65%'})
Morocco: (2.36, {'4.0': '16.17%', '3.0': '25.68%', '2.0': '35.87%', '1.0': '22.28%'})
Tunisia: (2.04, {'4.0': '22.03%', '1.0': '51.08%', '2.0': '16.08%', '3.0': '10.81%'})
Algeria: (2.59, {'2.0': '31.80%', '1.0': '17.74%', '3.0': '23.73%', '4.0': '26.73%'})
Saudi Arabia: (2.49, {'1.0': '25.75%', '2.0': '28.00%', '3.0': '17.50%', '4.0': '28.75%'})
Sudan: (2.28, {'3.0': '17.85%', '4.0': '18.13%', '1.0': '25.94%', '2.0': '38.08%'})
Palestine: (2.30, {'2.0': '40.66%', '4.0': '15.92%', '3.0': '20.92%', '1.0': '22.50%'})
Kuwait: (No data, {})
Mauritania: (2.13, {'1.0': '26.68%', '2.0': '41.97%', '3.0': '23.01%', '4.0': '8.34%'})
Qatar: (No data, {})