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Replication code and data for: "The influence of Political Intimidation on Voter Turnout in Nigerian Elections - Evidence from Afrobarometer Round 8 survey" | Binary Logistic Regression | Python | Afrobarometer # Political-intimidation-voter-turnout-nigeria Replication code and data for: "The influence of Political Intimidation on Voter Turnout in Nigerian Elections - Evidence from Afrobarometer Round 8 survey" | Binary Logistic Regression | Python | Afrobarometer # Political Intimidation and Voter Turnout in Nigerian Elections ## Overview This repository contains the data and analysis code for the study: "The Influence of Political Intimidation on Voter Turnout in Nigerian Elections: Findings from Afrobarometer Round 8 Survey" Author: Mbah Christiana Favour Department of Sociology, University of Lagos. ## Data Source The dataset used in this study is derived from the Afrobarometer Round 8 survey conducted in Nigeria (January–February 2020) by NOI Polls Ltd. The original dataset is publicly available at: afrobarometer.org The cleaned and recoded version used here applies variable recoding as described in the Methods section of the accompanying manuscript and documented in: Afrobarometer_R8.sav ## Analysis All statistical analysis was conducted in Python using statsmodels. The full analysis is documented in: political_intimidation_analysis.ipynb Logistic Regression results in: logistics_regression_results.xls ## Requirements - Python 3.x - pandas - numpy - statsmodels - pyreadstat - matplotlib - seaborn Install all requirements with: pip install pandas numpy statsmodels pyreadstat matplotlib seaborn