The trend was sustained across the provinces – albeit with variations. Provincial comparisons show that the highest rate of attending because they ‘feared to anger someone’ were in the Midlands (by a factor of 6:1 – for every six persons attending because they wanted to, one indicated attendance to prevent angering someone), similarly 8:1 in Matabeleland South, and 9:1 in Mashonaland Central. The data suggests that the urban areas of Zimbabwe are far more conducive to freedom of political choice. Although the sample numbers get modest upon exploration of the crosstabulations, there is a trend that the rural areas have a far bigger proportions of those who attended due to not wanting to anger anyone than vice versa. Table 13: Comparative impressions on the 2009-11 process for making a new constitution The COPAC process is about … September 2009 (%) December 2010 (%) Appointing a parliamentary select committee Consulting all stakeholders in public hearings Submitting the draft constitution to voting in a national referendum Ratification of the new Constitution by parliament & president All of the above Percentage of sample responding to question 4 11 15 29 9 11 3 1 7 18 38 70 Question: ‘Parts of the constitution-making process have been completed; others are still to follow. According to what you have heard, what is the process for making a new constitution?’ There is haste and impatience that a new constitution has to be adopted and that the constitutionshapers should ‘get on with the job’. Yet, there is a simultaneous insistence that more education is needed on constitutional matters before the draft can be taken into a referendum. The COPAC process is seen as quite credible. Only small percentages of respondents report having experienced problems, or having experienced prescriptions regarding the nature of inputs. Anecdotal reports prior to the survey had suggested that there might have been widespread intimidation and prescription on the inputs into the process.9 It is possible that these incidents had been occurring in 9 Non-governmental human rights organisations in Zimbabwe had been receiving substantiated reports of such events. This was reported in Freedom House Southern Africa (FHSA), 14 September 2010, Report on Consultation with FHSA Partner Organisations in Zimbabwe, by Susan Booysen. 39