Survey question from The 2022 Arab Opinion Index
Category: GOVERNANCE & POLITICAL SYSTEMS — State performance
Question: Which of the following statements do you most agree with? 1: The more force is used by the government and its agencies, the greater the sense of the state's formidability among citizens, 2: Excessive use of force by the state costs the state its formidability among the citizens, 
Response scale: 1 to 3
Responses by country (mean, answer distribution):
Egypt: (1.62, {'2.0': '49.56%', '3.0': '6.16%', '1.0': '44.28%'})
Iraq: (1.39, {'2.0': '37.12%', '1.0': '61.75%', '3.0': '1.12%'})
Jordan: (1.48, {'1.0': '55.89%', '2.0': '40.68%', '3.0': '3.42%'})
Lebanon: (1.56, {'2.0': '34.78%', '1.0': '54.52%', '3.0': '10.70%'})
Libya: (1.41, {'1.0': '59.41%', '2.0': '39.72%', '3.0': '0.87%'})
Morocco: (1.85, {'2.0': '57.33%', '1.0': '28.79%', '3.0': '13.88%'})
Tunisia: (1.54, {'1.0': '47.78%', '2.0': '50.44%', '3.0': '1.77%'})
Algeria: (1.45, {'1.0': '55.16%', '2.0': '44.25%', '3.0': '0.60%'})
Saudi Arabia: (1.65, {'2.0': '23.88%', '1.0': '55.36%', '3.0': '20.76%'})
Sudan: (1.60, {'1.0': '45.29%', '2.0': '49.14%', '3.0': '5.58%'})
Palestine: (1.67, {'1.0': '38.61%', '2.0': '55.57%', '3.0': '5.82%'})
Kuwait: (1.52, {'1.0': '55.54%', '2.0': '37.42%', '3.0': '7.05%'})
Mauritania: (1.61, {'2.0': '50.70%', '1.0': '44.22%', '3.0': '5.08%'})
Qatar: (1.77, {'1.0': '40.64%', '2.0': '41.44%', '3.0': '17.91%'})