Monthly Archive: September 2014

RESULTS OF THE NATION OPINION POLL SEPTEMBER 2014

RESULTS OF THE NATION OPINION POLL conducted on September 2-12, 2014 (1.506 persons interviewed, margin of error does not exceed 0.03)  

THE MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS OF THE PUBLIC OPINION POLL IN SEPTEMBER 2014

THE MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS OF THE PUBLIC OPINION POLL IN SEPTEMBER 2014 (were interviewed 1.506 persons aged 18 and over, margin of error doesn’t exceed 0.03) 1. The unstable character of “economic well-being” of Belarusians, recorded in June, may be observed in the third quarter as well:  – The ratio of those whose financial standing improved …

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BULLETINS INFOFOCUS № 9

E-bulletin of IISEPS Center for Documentation, N 9, 2014 – ISSN 1822-5578 (only Russian) Content: Introduction 1. Basic trends of September 2. Chronicle of key events 3. Politics 3.1. The first sentence of the first article of the principal law 3.2. Gangrene of noncompetitiveness 4. Economics 4.1. Fracking and prospects of Belarusian economic model 4.2. …

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BULLETINS “IISEPS NEWS” № 3

IISEPS News – ISSN 1822-5535 (Printing), ISSN 1822-5543 (ONLINE), N 3 (73), 2014 Content: Preface MONITORING OF PUBLIC OPINION IN BELARUS: September-2014 September anomalies Gender-based viewpoint on economical preferences “Atta boy! That’s how a president should be!” All people are equal in the face of repressions. But some people are more equal than others Fearing …

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WHAT DO WE WANT?

The answers of respondents, regarding goods and their prices, leave a mixed feeling. The overwhelming majority prefers a market variant, i.e. wide offer of goods and services at free market prices (83.4%). An even bigger percentage of young people answered so (95.7%). Those, who long for the socialist deficits and poor quality of goods make up a minority, and those are not young people (Table 1).

INDEPENDENT TELEVISION IN BELARUS: ECONOMIC INFORMATION SOURCE AND A RESOURCE FOR SOCIAL LEADERS

Independent television is one of the elements in the framework of Belarus’ independent media. It is comprised of about 20 regional television companies, arpund 20 cable television companies, which broadcast in urban residential areas and a few companies, which produce original programmes, but have no access to broadcasting themselves. The average weekly broadcasts of a non-state television company make up 41.2 hours.

NATIONAL POLL 09’14

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: 2014, September 2-12
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: 1506 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