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Natoinal Survey in Syrian Arab Republic

Research Team
Organizer+Coordinator
 Hiroyuki AOYAMA (Researcher, Institute of Developing Economies – Japan External Trade Organization)
Member of the Research Project
 Yutaka TAKAOKA (Researcher, the Middle East Research Institute of Japan)
Collaborating Researchers
 Erina IWASAKI (Research Fellow, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
Hiroshi KATO (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)


Collaborating Organization
Orient Center for (International) Studies, Damascus
Markaz al-Sharq li-l-Dirāsāt (al-Duwalīya)
 Samir ALTAQI, General Coordinator
Arabi ALMASRI, Professor, Faculty of Media and Communication, Damascus University
Maria ALKAIAL, Secretary, the Orient Center for International Studies


Progress and Outcomes of the Research Project
2006
 November: Visiting of the research institutions, including OCS, for selecting collaborating institution in Syria (and the Arab countries).
November – December: Visiting of Dr. Samir ALTAQI, General Coordinator at OCS to Japan.
2007
 February – March: Negotiations with OCS in Damascus, for establishing cooperative framework.
April – May: Launched the preparation for the National Poll in Syria in collaboration with OCS.
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)
July – September: Preparation of the poll in Damascus (sampling, running a pre-text, translation of questionnaire into Arabic, revision of the questionnaire, etc.)
October: Distributed and collected the questionnaire in the whole Syria.
October – January, 2006 (IAP): Data entry and report writing.
2008
 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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