| 1. Title of the study: | “Democratization of Mass Communication and Economy in Belarus” |
| 2. Topics of thematic coverage: | changes in political, economic and information spheres, and in everyday life |
| 3. The aim: | to reveal most important facilitators and obstacles in democratization of mass communication and economy in Belarus |
| 4. Descriptors: | economy, living conditions, economic crisis, businessmen, private property, state property, “shadow economy”, privatization, media landscape, media audience, media impact |
| 5. Political block: | а) restoration of the USSR and role of Communist party, Russian-Belarussian unification b) necessity of general elections in 1994 c) attitudes towards different political parties |
| 6. Comparability: | most important questions were replicated |
| 7. Geographical area: | Belarus-national |
| 8. Principal investigator: | IISEPS |
| 9. Polling organization: | IISEPS, P.O.B. 219, Minsk, 220030, Belarus, e-mail: iiseps@iiseps.org |
| 10. Fieldwork dates: | 1993, December |
| 11. Population sampled: | 18+ years old residents of Belarus who are not currently in hospital, jail, military service |
| 12. Sampling: | clustered random |
| 13. Sample size: | 1148 respondents |
| 14. Mode of interviews: | face-to-face interview |
| 15. Interviewers: | part-time and university students |
| 16. Control: | selective control of interviewers |
| 17. Related publications: | 12 publications in mass media |
| 18. Availability of the original data sets: | contact with IISEPS |
| 19. Source of information: | IISEPS |