...urveys conducted an evaluation of 7 residential drug treatment centers from 2009 to 2011. The centers were located in urban and rural settings in five provinces of Afghanistan. Due to the complex and sensitive nature of the research, ACSOR and its partner organizations faced many challenges. Lack of geographic information such as house numbers meant that a best-practice, culturally sensitive approach for tracking and locating respondents had to be...
...their area. Increasingly, women describe themselves as seeking work, rather than as housewives, and women increasingly contribute to household income. Fieldwork for the nationally representative survey, consisting of 9,271 face-to-face interviews conducted by 909 interviewers in all 34 provinces of Afghanistan, took place from June 22 to July 8, 2013. Respondents were male and female Afghan nationals (83% rural, 17% urban – unweighted) aged 18 an...
...rk outside the home. The 2016 study had the largest sample size of any survey conducted by ACSOR on behalf of the Asia Foundation so far: fieldwork for the nationally representative survey, consisting of 12,658 face-to-face interviews in all 34 provinces of Afghanistan, took place from August 31 – October 1, 2016. Respondents were male and female Afghan nationals (82% rural, 18% urban – unweighted) aged 18 and over....
...partnership with D3 Systems (USA) and ACSOR Surveys (Afghanistan) in March 2016. The mixed-methods research design was developed to understand knowledge, attitudes, and practices of women’s economic rights in Afghanistan, particularly from the point of view of Afghan men. The study also measured perceptions of gender-based violence and regional variations in knowledge and perceptions. This study provided important baseline information necessary t...
...eldwork for the nationally representative survey, consisting of 10,012 face-to-face interviews in all 34 provinces of Afghanistan, took place from July 5 – 23, 2017. Respondents were evenly split between male and female Afghan nationals (80% rural, 20% urban – unweighted) aged 18 and over. Data was weighted to reflect population estimates. The Asia Foundation’s report on this year’s survey findings, as well as the survey data, are available for fr...
...n Kabul and in Washington, DC at the U.S. Institute of Peace on December 4, 2018. A follow-up presentation on key findings from the survey related to women and gender equality was held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on December 6, 2018. Video of that presentation can be viewed online. As in previous years, the survey has received coverage in international news media, including Reuters, U.S. News & World Report, and Digital Journ...
...s at the Washington, DC release event, the survey “provides a statistically-valid, long-term barometer of Afghan public opinion, and helps to contribute to a better collective understanding of Afghan views.” The survey has received coverage in international news media, including The New York Times, Reuters, and The Miami Herald, as well as in Afghan media such as Tolo News. Conversation about the survey findings has been taking place across Twitte...
...Random Digit Dialing (RDD) sample. The COVID-19 pandemic hindered the face-to-face fielding of the Asia Foundation’s annual Survey of the Afghan People (SAP) in 2020. However, the Foundation partnered with ACSOR-Surveys, the implementor for SAP, to field the Flash Survey and collect information about the experiences and perspectives of Afghans during this critical time. The country suffered the impacts of the pandemic over the past year, while at...
