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Research Team
Organizer+Coordinator
Member of the Research Project
Collaborating Researchers
Collaborating Organization
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Samir ALTAQI, General Coordinator |
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Arabi ALMASRI, Professor, Faculty of Media and Communication, Damascus
University |
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Maria ALKAIAL, Secretary, the Orient Center for International Studies |
Progress and Outcomes of the Research Project
2006
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November: Visiting of the research institutions, including OCS, for selecting
collaborating institution in Syria (and the Arab countries). |
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November – December: Visiting of Dr. Samir ALTAQI, General Coordinator
at OCS to Japan. |
2007
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February – March: Negotiations with OCS in Damascus, for establishing cooperative framework. |
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April – May: Launched the preparation for the National Poll in Syria in
collaboration with OCS. |
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July: Agreed with OCIS on conduct of “National Survey in Syrian Arab Republic
(July 2007 – February 2008)”.
The target and methods of the Survey are the following:
☆National survey is to be conducted in the Syrian Arab Republic.
☆1,000 individuals, aged between 18 and 65, are to be targeted.
☆Sampling is based on Central Bureau of Statistic (CBS), General Census
of Population,
Housing and Establishment 2006 (al-Ta‘dād al-‘Ām li-l-Sukkān wa al-Masākin
wa
al-Mansha’āt li-‘Ām 2006).
☆1,000 individuals, aged between 18 and 65, are to be targeted.
☆Stratified random sampling method (based on the proportional allocation),
representative of the following strata: a) Governorate, b) Region (urban/rural),
c) Gender, d) Age,
e) Educational level, f) Religion, g) Socio-economic level
☆Questionnaire (Arabic version)
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July – September: Preparation of the poll in Damascus (sampling, running
a pre-text, translation of questionnaire into Arabic, revision of the questionnaire,
etc.) |
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October: Distributed and collected the questionnaire in the whole Syria. |
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October – January, 2006 (IAP): Data entry and report writing. |
2008
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February (IAP): Publication of the resport on “National Survey in Syrian
Arab Republic (July 2007 – February 2008)” |
Hiroyuki AOYAMA and Yutaka TAKAOKA
Updated on December 15, 2007
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