...anding 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 Twitter and other social media platforms, marked with the hashtag #AfghanSurvey. The Survey was fielded during a period of uncertainty in Afghanistan: peace talks between the U.S. and the T...
KABUL, Afghanistan, January 29, 2015 – Today, ACSOR releases results from the sixth installment of its Afghan Futures series, a nationally representative survey of 2,051 Afghans ages 18 and older in all 34 provinces of the country fielded in November 2014 in cooperation with D3 Systems and Langer Research. Afghans broadly support the new government and appear to have set aside suspicions of election fraud in order to move forward. While only 44 p...
...ng team includes interviewers in all 34 provinces with access to urban and rural locations throughout Afghanistan. Our interviewers are local to the provinces they work in, and while the primary language of most interviews is Dari or Pashto, out team has language capabilities including Uzbek, Turkmen, Pashai, and other languages found in Afghanistan. ACSOR maintains a headquarters in Kabul and regional offices throughout the 34 provinces, includin...
...ta from ACSOR’s own Afghan Futures survey was presented at the 68th annual American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Conference in Boston, Massachusetts this past May. “Indicators of State Legitimacy in Afghanistan,” written by Nina Sabarre, Samuel Solomon, and Timothy Van Blarcom from D3 Systems, Inc. drew from data collected in the third installment of the Afghan Futures Survey sponsored by ACSOR-Surveys, a nationally representati...
...t among Pashtuns in first-round preferences to 75 percent of Pashtuns in a runoff against Abdullah. Ghani, who picked former Uzbek commander Rashid Dostum as his running mate, has 60 percent support from Uzbeks, about one in 10 likely voters. Aside from ethnic and regional divisions, the results show very few meaningful differences among other groups in support for Abdullah or Ghani – by age, sex, education, urban/rural status or a range of measur...
...citing development means that urban surveys in Afghanistan can now be conducted on mobile devices as well as with pen and paper. RCS surveys can also be administered via tablet, on computers, or online. ACSOR looks forward to using this new technology in future projects when possible. For more information and key findings from the survey, please click here....
...interviews. Respondents were both men (59%) and women (41%), aged 18 and over. The End of Year Survey has received much international attention, including from the BBC. Full results from the End of Year Survey are available on the WIN/Gallup International’s website....
...of the survey have been the subject of news articles and editorials in ABC News, Voice of America, and many other news outlets. Full results and data are free and available for download on The Asia Foundation’s website, and a full video of the release event with discussion of survey topics and accompanying Q&A can be viewed on YouTube. In addition, a conversation about the survey’s findings has been occurring on Twitter, marked with #AfghanSurvey....
...uation (42.7%), unemployment and the poor economy (35.5% together), and corruption (24.2%) as the country’s main problems.[1] For the first time, the survey asked about the biggest problems facing youth, an important question in a country where over half the population is under the age of 18.[2] Respondents named unemployment as the leading problem for Afghan youth (71%), followed by illiteracy (26%), and the poor economy (16%).[3] Fieldwork for t...
