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One in four in Georgia report taking antidepressants or antibiotics without a...
On a 2016 CRRC survey conducted for Transparency International Georgia (TIG), one in four adults in Georgia reported taking either antidepressants or antibiotics without a doctor’s prescription during...
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Trends in the data: Changing attitudes towards divorce in Georgia
CRRC’s Caucasus Barometer data show that assessments of whether divorce can or cannot be justified are changing in Georgia. This blog post looks at this trend, and at how these assessments differ by...
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Are there ways to encourage young people to vote?
During the 2016 parliamentary election campaign in Georgia a political party released a commercial encouraging young people to participate in the upcoming elections. As the commercial claimed, in order...
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Why Georgian women need rights instead of flowers
[Note: This post was written by Natia Mestvirishvili, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at CRRC-Georgia and a Researcher at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). The post was...
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Reported attitudes towards domestic violence in Georgia
Recently, there have been reports of homicides of spouses, children, siblings, and parents in Georgia. The October 2014 CRRC/NDI survey provides insights into what the population of Georgia thinks...
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43% of the Georgian public support more women in parliament
In Georgia, women are in few political decision making positions. Following the October 2016 elections, women hold 16% of the seats in parliament, the highest percent in the country’s history....
View ArticleSafer transport options for passengers: Series introduction
Complaints about minibus (marshutka) driving are common in Georgia. From excessive speeds, to erratic and distracted driving, minibus travel in Georgia is often less than safe and comfortable. But...
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New OECD/CRRC-Georgia report calls for more coherent migration management in...
From 2013 to 2016, the OECD Development Centre coordinated a EU-funded project on Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development (IPPMD) in ten developing countries including...
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Safer transport options for passengers: Distracted and dangerous driving...
Over the course of this week, CRRC-Georgia will publish the results of a randomized control trial on minibus safety. While the introduction post to this series highlighted that Georgia’s roadways are...
View ArticleSafer transport options for passengers: A Nudge on Marshutka Safety
Within the auspices of the Safer Transit Options for Passenger’s project, CRRC-Georgia carried out a randomized control trial, attempting to test whether a small policy change could make a large...
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Safer transport options for passengers: Immediate, lasting, and contagion...
As the last two blog posts in this series have described, CRRC-Georgia carried out a randomized control trial on minibus safety. This post reports the results of the experiment, and specifically...
View ArticleSafer transport options for passengers: Recommendations
In the previous blog posts in this series (see here, here, here, and here), we reported the design and results of a randomized control trial on minibus safety in Georgia. In this blog post, we provide...
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Proposed Reform Could Tilt Electoral Field Toward Incumbents
Irakli Kobakhidze, Speaker of Georgian Parliament, recently outlined proposed constitutional changes. Among them is a switch to a fully proportional electoral system, which civil society groups have...
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Why the civil service? The civil service as seen by civil servants in Georgia
The civil service plays an important role in the development of a country. Thus the competence and motivation of civil servants matter. An online survey of civil servants conducted by CRRC-Georgia for...
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How many Tetri are in a Lari? The importance of municipal statistics for good...
[Note: This post was co-published with Eurasianet and authored by Koba Turmanidze, CRRC-Georgia's Director.] The government of Georgia committed itself to collect and publish policy-relevant data in a...
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Rising expectations: People report more positive expectations about MPs...
Research suggests that voters not only become more knowledgeable about political issues, but also more politically engaged during electoral campaigns. CRRC/NDI survey data also suggest that during the...
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Debts and Loans in Georgia (Part 1)
In Georgia, where, according to the World Bank, a third of the population live on under USD 2.5 per day, poverty and unemployment are consistently considered the most important issues facing the...
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Debts and Loans in Georgia (Part 2)
The first part of this blog post showed that people who report being in a worse economic situation are more likely to have debts in Georgia. In the second part of this blog post, a new variable is...
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Air Pollution in Tbilisi: What the Data Says
[Note: This is a guest blog post by Dr. Hans Gutbrod, the former Director of CRRC.]With the recent debate on traffic safety, it may also be a good time to highlight the issue of air pollution in...
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Awareness of EU aid and support for EU membership in Georgia
The EU provides a wide variety of aid to Georgia. Within the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) alone, EUR 452.1 million was allocated for Georgia in 2007-2013. What, if any, role...
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