1. Title of the study: | “Development of Information Infrastructure for Market Economy in Belarus” |
2. Topics of thematic coverage: | political, social and economic factors of the development of the information infrastructure for market economy, development of the economic programms of non-state TV |
3. The aim: | to reveal the most important facilitators and obstacles for the development of information infrastructure for market economy, and to prepare the groundwork for the broadcasting pro-market TV program through network of independent regional TV companies |
4. Descriptors: | market, mass media, socio-economic positions and attitudes, electoral behavior, political attitudes |
5. Comparability: | most important questions were replicated |
6. Geographical area: | Belarus-national |
7. Principal investigator: | IISEPS |
8. Polling organization: | IISEPS, P.O.B. 219, Minsk, 220030, Belarus, e-mail: iiseps@iiseps.org |
9. Fieldwork dates: | 1997, November |
10. Population sampled: | 18+ years old residents of Belarus who are not currently in hospital, jail, military service |
11. Sampling: | clustered random |
12. Sample size: | 1499 respondents |
13. Mode of interviews: | face-to-face interview |
14. Interviewers: | part-time and university students |
15. Control: | selective control of interviewers |
16. Related publications: | 45 publications in mass media |
17. Availability of the original data sets: | contact with IISEPS |
18. Source of information: | IISEPS |