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dc.contributor.authorKolstad, Ivar
dc.contributor.authorWiig, Arne
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-04T08:20:25Z
dc.date.available2018-01-04T08:20:25Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-01
dc.identifieroai:www.cmi.no:5606
dc.identifier.citationBergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2015:9) 12 p.
dc.identifier.isbn82-8062-554-0
dc.identifier.issn0804-3639
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2475105
dc.description.abstractUsing survey data of voters in Tanzania, this paper shows that while education does not affect self-reported voting in general elections, it increases actual voting. The less educated are more likely to claim to have voted without having done so, which may explain why previous studies of voting in developing countries fail to find an effect of education. We demonstrate the importance of this finding by using our survey data to generate predicted voting probabilities for the respondents to the 2012 Afrobarometer survey in Tanzania, and show that while mean self-reported voting does not differ much at different levels of education, the differences become significant when taking into account voting misrepresentation.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherChr. Michelsen Institute
dc.relationCMI Working Paper
dc.relationWP 2015:9
dc.relation.ispartofCMI Working Paper
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCMI Working Paper WP 2015:9
dc.relation.urihttps://www.cmi.no/publications/5606-education-and-electoral-participation
dc.subjectVoting
dc.subjectElections
dc.subjectParticipation
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectTanzania
dc.titleEducation and electoral participation: Reported versus actual voting behaviour
dc.typeWorking paper
dc.identifier.cristin1287069


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