...y positive. Most of the children liked her, and parents said that she spoke and looked like an Afghan girl. Most were also able to remember the segments she had appeared in during the test screenings. Zari debuted on Season Five of Baghch-e-Simsim shortly after ACSOR completed its testing and presented its report. Zari has received coverage in numerous international media outlets, including the New York Times, PBS News Hour, the BBC, and ABC News....
...confident that the next president would successfully unite the country around common goals. — The ongoing Afghan Futures surveys have been sponsored as a public service since 2010 by the Afghan Center for Socio-Economic and Opinion Research to track the course of public attitudes in Afghanistan. These results are based on face-to-face interviews conducted by ACSOR March 10-18, 2014, among a random national sample of 2,643 Afghans age 18 and older...
...f difficulty. This year’s survey found that 56% expected prosperity in the coming year, compared with 25% who expected difficulty, and 16% who expected things to remain the same. These figures show improvement from last year’s survey, when only 35% expected prosperity and 39% expected difficulty. While a slight majority of Afghans believe that elections in their country are free and fair, there are still many who disagree. This is likely due, at l...
...is: The Women in Muslim Countries (WIMC) Project is a collective effort to understand the status of rights (in practice and beliefs), attitudes, and behaviors of Muslim women around the world. WIMC has been ongoing since 2007, and WIMC surveys have run in 25 countries. The study reveals a rich and diverse spectrum of opinions among Muslim women. ACSOR is the field provider for the Afghanistan portion of the WIMC project, and questions related to w...
...KABUL, Afghanistan, March 17, 2010- The results of the January ABC News broadcast series...
...g of criticisms of the United States and NATO. But many challenges remain: complaints about official corruption are higher than ever, views of the United States’ performance remain weak and many Afghans still blame allied forces for civilian casualties. This is the fifth installment of this broadcast. ABC News’ 2005 broadcast of its “Afghanistan: Where Things Stand” poll was recognized by the University of Iowa/Gallup Award for Excellent Journalis...
...People, conducted by ACSOR-Surveys, Afghanistan’s largest survey research company founded with the assistance of D3 Systems, Inc. The Asia Foundation released the survey in Kabul on November 17th, and presented the findings at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. on November 19th. The results of the survey have been the subject of news articles and editorials in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, and ma...
...s also cited the ABC News poll on Afghanistan during an interview with the BBC. ACSOR-Surveys data were also discussed in Foreign Policy magazine, where the data was cited in a discussion of relevant Washington politics, while the LA Times used ACSOR-Surveys data to compare Afghanistan today to Iraq of yesterday. The data has been put to other uses as well. ACSOR-Surveys research was cited by the Associated Press on a story about television covera...
...Matthew Warshaw Managing Director matthew.warshaw@acsor-surveys.com Tel. 93 (0)-799-32-87-14 Tel. 1-703-388-2450...
...continued difficulties in terms of development and security alike. For more in-depth results, please see the full Afghan Futures Analysis. Download the Methodology Statement and Trend Document....
