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People who trust NGOs are more active
NGOs play an important role in Georgian society, weighing in on issues as diverse as energy policy and the budget. An important question however is, how much do people trust NGOs and are those who...
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Attitudes towards public opinion polls in Georgia (Part 2)
CRRC/NDI’s public opinion polls become the subject of intense discussions after the results of every wave of the survey are released, with politicians from various political parties criticizing the...
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Changes in the level of trust in social and political institutions in Georgia
The population’s level of trust in government and other institutions can be affected by many factors, and of course, may change over time. This blog post looks at how reported levels of trust in the...
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Perceptions of surveillance in Georgia: 2013 – 2015
In May, 2015 CRRC published a blog post about public perceptions of surveillance in Georgia. It showed that people in Georgia were concerned about their privacy when talking on the phone and when using...
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CRRC’s Fourth Annual Methodological Conference: Research for Development in...
CRRC’s fourth annual Methodological Conference took place on June 24 and 25, 2016 in Tbilisi. Over 50 participants representing numerous institutions from seven countries attended.David Lee, Chairman...
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How Georgia became an upper-middle income country
A year ago, on this blog, we took a look at how Georgia had likely become an upper-middle income country because of the 2014 census. On July 1st, the World Bank announced that Georgia had indeed...
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Who should Georgia’s closest economic partners be?
Reports on Georgia’s shifting public opinion of Russia and the West have been widely discussed on this blog and elsewhere. Focusing specifically on economic aspects, the Georgian population thinks both...
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Environmental issues in Georgia: a concern for all?
[Note: This post was first published on Friday, July 15th at the Clarion.]By Sacha BepoldinThe United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) has highlighted that “Environmental...
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Civic engagement in Georgia
Participation in various forms of social life can help people solve important social problems without the government’s involvement, which will eventually contribute to the formation of civil society....
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A New CRRC-Georgia/PROLoG Report: Legal Professionals’ Views on the Legal System
CRRC-Georgia’s report The Judicial System in Georgia: Views of Legal Professionals was published on 11 July, 2016. The report details the results of a baseline study for the USAID-funded project...
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Trends in the Data: Public support for democracy is slowly waning in Georgia...
Analysis of survey findings from the last few years, presented in the first part of this blog post, shows that public support for democracy is decliningin Georgia.Since 2012, the share of the...
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What can CRRC’s Caucasus Barometer survey tell us about internal migration in...
According to existing estimates, the stock of internal migrants is much larger than the stock of international migrants worldwide. In Georgia, however, internal migration is largely overlooked and...
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In order to help monitor the fidelity of the October 2016 parliamentary election results, CRRC-Georgia will carry out quantitative analysis of election-related statistics using methods from the field...
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Making Votes Count: Statistical Anomalies in Election Statistics
[Note: In order to help monitor the fidelity of the October 2016 parliamentary election results, CRRC-Georgia will carry out quantitative analysis of election-related statistics using methods from the...
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Trends in the data: A majority of the population of Georgia now uses the...
Internet use is on the rise worldwide, and while internet penetration is increasing the world over, in some countries still relatively small shares of the population use it. While only about a third of...
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Trends in the Data: Declining trust in the banks in Georgia
The last few years have been turbulent for Georgia’s national currency, the Lari (GEL), the value of which started to decline in November 2014. While in October 2014 one US dollar traded for GEL 1.75,...
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Trends in the Data: Changes in the level of trust in social and political...
According to an earlier CRRC blog post, which looked at the changes in the level of trust in social and political institutions in Georgia from 2011 to 2015, trust in a fair number of institutions in...
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Employment and income in Georgia: Differences by educational attainment
According to the data of the National Statistics Office of Georgiafor 2005-2016, there are approximately 100,000 students in Georgian tertiary educational institutions. Around the world, education...
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Trends in the Data: Declining Trust and Rising Ambivalence towards the Media...
CRRC has written before about the ambivalent attitude of the population of Georgia towards journalists. Based on CRRC’s Caucasus Barometer (CB) survey data, this post explores the population’s trust in...
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Companies’ lack of interest in DCFTA trade may slow benefits
Positive expectations abound in Georgia around the potential impact of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) Agreement with the EU. Yet, it is still unclear if the agreement’s...
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