Monthly Archive: May 2011

RESULTS OF THE NATION OPINION POLL CONDUCTED ON MAY 10-20, 2011

(1.505 persons interviewed, margin of error does not exceed 0.03)   1. To what extent can you (your family) afford the following with your current income? Variant of answer Can’t afford Can hardly afford Can easily afford NA Normal diet 9.7 40.3 49.4 0.6 Buying clothing, footwear 24.2 51.3 23.6 0.9 Major purchases, e.g. furniture, …

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BULLETINS INFOFOCUS № 5

E-bulletin of IISEPS Center for Documentation, N 5, 2011 – ISSN 1822-5578 (only Russian) Content: Introduction 1. Basic trends of May 2. Chronicle of key events 3. Politics 3.1. A ton of sugar for 6 minutes! 3.2. Yu. Andropov: “I’ll be back” 4. Economics 4.1. The world crisis and the Soviet gauge 4.2. Three scenarios …

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WHAT ARE GIRLS MADE OF?

In the course of the poll, the respondents were asked several tens of questions concerning various aspects of social and political experience. Meanwhile, gender appeared not to be the factor determining material diversity of responses.
Thus, the questions inviting female and male responses, which differ distinctly and significantly, become far more appealing.

WHAT ECONOMY DO BELARUSIANS NEED?

The national polling results over the last fifteen years have been showing that two thirds of the adult citizens quite steadily deem the market economy preferred for our country (Table 1). At the same time, we can see that the quantity of the proponents of the planned economy for the same period has reduced more than twice, and today one can state that only every seventh adult Belarusian is a proponent of the socialist economic model. It is half as many as the number of pensioners.

NATIONAL POLL 05’11

1. Title of the study: “Monitoring of a public opinion in Belarus”
2. Topics of thematic coverage: political, social and economic factors of development of Belarusian society, integration with Europe and Russia
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: 2011, May 10 – 20
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: 1505 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