Monthly Archive: May 2005

RESULTS OF THE NATION OPINION POLL CONDUCTED IN MAY OF 2005

(1510 persons interviewed, margin of error doesn’t exceed 0.03)   1. In your opinion, are there any people in Belarus who could govern the country better than A. Lukashenko and his Cabinet? Variant of answer % Yes 37.6 No 35.9 DA/NA 26.5 2. Imagine that the election of 2006 is free and fair, i.e. all candidates …

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BULLETINS INFOFOCUS № 5

E-bulletin of IISEPS Center for Documentation, N 5, 2005 (only Russian) Content: Introduction Theme of the month: Velvet Revolution in Belarus: Myth or Reality? Person of the month: Criminal Persecution of Noted Opposition Figures: Course Toughening or Law Observance? Document of the month: Presidential Decree “On Assigning New Names to Streets and Avenues in Minsk”: …

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NATIONAL POLL 05’05

1. Title of the study: Strengthening pro-“wide Europe” attitudes in Belarus”
2. Topics of thematic coverage: political, social and economic factors of development of Belarusian society, integration with Europe
3. The aim: to study the most important facilitators and obstacles of development of Belarusian society, to support Belarusian democratic forces for social transformations
4. Descriptors: market, economic attitudes, socio-political positions and attitudes, integration, free and democratic election, electoral behavior, opposition, political preferences, political parties, mass media
5. Comparability: most important questions were replicated
6. Geographical area: Belarus-national
7. Source of information: iiseps@iiseps.org
8. Fieldwork dates: 2005, May
9. Population sampled: 18+ years old residents of Belarus who are not currently in hospital, jail, military service
10. Sampling: clustered random
11. Sample size: 1510 respondents
12. Mode of interviews: face-to-face interview
13. Control: selective control of interviewers
14. Related publications: more then 10 publications in mass media