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Your chart with weights on should look something like this.

weighted taxes bar chart

Fig: Weighted taxes bar chart by country

Comment on graphs: In this example both Belgium and the Ukraine have lower proportions who support the statement about paying taxes. Looking at the corollary however, it is clear that Ukraine is not so different from other countries. Both Belgium and the Ukraine had higher proportions of respondents who said they neither agreed nor disagreed.

The University of Manchester; Mimas; ESRC; RDI

Countries and Citizens: Unit 3 Making cross-national comparisons using micro data by Siobhan Carey, Department for International Development is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.