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Satyendra Pathak
doha
IT’S a near consensus view among Qatari respondents that the economic and the political situations in the country is strong and stable.
According to the 2019-2020 Arab Opinion Index released on Tuesday, 93 percent of respondents from Qatar believe the economic situation in the country is either very good or good. While 66 percent of the Qatari respondents believe the economic situation in the country is ‘very good’, 27 percent respondents are of the view that it is ‘good’.
According to the index, 97 percent of the respondents from Qatar believe that the political situation in the country is either ‘very good’ or ‘good’.
The 2019-2020 Arab Opinion Index is the seventh in a series of yearly public opinion surveys across the Arab world, based on the findings of face-to-face interviews conducted with 28,288 individual respondents in 13 Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania.
A survey on ‘How do Arab citizens assess the political and security situations in their countries’ revealed that 69 percent of the respondents believe that the level of security in their country is good, compared to 30 percent who rated it negatively.
The assessment of the level of safety in the respondents’countries, according to the results of the 2019-2020 poll, is less than what was recorded in the 2018-2017 poll by five points, and higher than what was recorded in the 2015, 2014 and 2012-2013 polls.
The majority of respondents in Arab countries, with the exception of the Gulf countries, evaluated the economic situation in their countries negatively, especially in the countries of the Arab Mashreq.
Almost 46 percent described the economic situation of their countries as good, whereas 52 percent considered it overall negative.
Only 27 percent of respondents, mostly in the Gulf region, reported that their household income was sufficient for them to make savings after their necessary expenditures were covered.
A further 43 percent reported that while their household incomes were sufficient to cover necessary subsistence expenditures, they could not sustain savings.
Almost 26 percent of respondents reported that they lived ‘in a state of need’ with household incomes not covering their necessary expenditures.
As expected, the affluent families are concentrated in the Gulf region, while families in need are centred in the Mashreq.
The priorities of the citizens of the Arab region are varied, but the largest bloc of 57 percent said that their priorities are economic in nature.
More than half of the citizens mentioned that unemployment, high prices, poor economic conditions and poverty are the most important challenges facing their countries.
Almost 22 percent of the citizens of the Arab region want to migrate, and the majority of them want to do so in order to improve their economic situation.
However, about 15 percent of the respondents who wanted to emigrate said that their motive was education or continuing education, and 12 percent said that they want to emigrate for political or security reasons.
More than a quarter of respondents in the Mashreq, Maghreb and Nile Valley countries want to emigrate, compared to 5 percent in the Gulf countries.
About views on democracy, the results show that there is near-unanimous support for democracy, with 76 percent of respondents indicating their support for a democratic system and only 17 percent opposed.
The Arab Opinion Index is a yearly public opinion survey conducted by Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) across a range of Arab countries. It provides important data about trends in Arab public opinion on a range of economic, social and political issues of direct relevance to Arab citizens, including democracy, citizenship, equality, and civil and political participation.
It presents citizens’ evaluations of their own circumstances, general conditions in their home countries, state institutions and their confidence therein. It also looks at their attitudes towards Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as the regional policy of international and regional powers such as the USA, France, Germany, Russia, China and Turkey.
doha
IT’S a near consensus view among Qatari respondents that the economic and the political situations in the country is strong and stable.
According to the 2019-2020 Arab Opinion Index released on Tuesday, 93 percent of respondents from Qatar believe the economic situation in the country is either very good or good. While 66 percent of the Qatari respondents believe the economic situation in the country is ‘very good’, 27 percent respondents are of the view that it is ‘good’.
According to the index, 97 percent of the respondents from Qatar believe that the political situation in the country is either ‘very good’ or ‘good’.
The 2019-2020 Arab Opinion Index is the seventh in a series of yearly public opinion surveys across the Arab world, based on the findings of face-to-face interviews conducted with 28,288 individual respondents in 13 Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania.
A survey on ‘How do Arab citizens assess the political and security situations in their countries’ revealed that 69 percent of the respondents believe that the level of security in their country is good, compared to 30 percent who rated it negatively.
The assessment of the level of safety in the respondents’countries, according to the results of the 2019-2020 poll, is less than what was recorded in the 2018-2017 poll by five points, and higher than what was recorded in the 2015, 2014 and 2012-2013 polls.
The majority of respondents in Arab countries, with the exception of the Gulf countries, evaluated the economic situation in their countries negatively, especially in the countries of the Arab Mashreq.
Almost 46 percent described the economic situation of their countries as good, whereas 52 percent considered it overall negative.
Only 27 percent of respondents, mostly in the Gulf region, reported that their household income was sufficient for them to make savings after their necessary expenditures were covered.
A further 43 percent reported that while their household incomes were sufficient to cover necessary subsistence expenditures, they could not sustain savings.
Almost 26 percent of respondents reported that they lived ‘in a state of need’ with household incomes not covering their necessary expenditures.
As expected, the affluent families are concentrated in the Gulf region, while families in need are centred in the Mashreq.
The priorities of the citizens of the Arab region are varied, but the largest bloc of 57 percent said that their priorities are economic in nature.
More than half of the citizens mentioned that unemployment, high prices, poor economic conditions and poverty are the most important challenges facing their countries.
Almost 22 percent of the citizens of the Arab region want to migrate, and the majority of them want to do so in order to improve their economic situation.
However, about 15 percent of the respondents who wanted to emigrate said that their motive was education or continuing education, and 12 percent said that they want to emigrate for political or security reasons.
More than a quarter of respondents in the Mashreq, Maghreb and Nile Valley countries want to emigrate, compared to 5 percent in the Gulf countries.
About views on democracy, the results show that there is near-unanimous support for democracy, with 76 percent of respondents indicating their support for a democratic system and only 17 percent opposed.
The Arab Opinion Index is a yearly public opinion survey conducted by Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) across a range of Arab countries. It provides important data about trends in Arab public opinion on a range of economic, social and political issues of direct relevance to Arab citizens, including democracy, citizenship, equality, and civil and political participation.
It presents citizens’ evaluations of their own circumstances, general conditions in their home countries, state institutions and their confidence therein. It also looks at their attitudes towards Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as the regional policy of international and regional powers such as the USA, France, Germany, Russia, China and Turkey.
