2011 Archives - Page 12 of 124

Public Attitudes in Georgia: CRRC Polling Results

5 May, 2011

CRRC conducted a survey on political and economic attitudes in Georgia for the National Democratic Institute (NDI), funded by the Swedish International development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). The fieldwork of the survey took place in March, 2011 and surveyed 2,893 respondents…

Works-in-Progress Series: Social Media in Armenia & Azerbaijan – New tools for peacebuilding and grassroots activism? April 27, 2011, Tbilisi, Georgia – Onnik Krikorian

26 April, 2011

Onnik Krikorian is a journalist, photojournalist, and new media consultant from the United Kingdom now based in Yerevan, Armenia.

Internet Penetration in Armenia

13 April, 2011

Scholar Katy Pearce recently published an article on Epress News (http://www.epress.am/) revealing some interesting points about internet penetration in Armenia. Using information from CRRC’s 2010 Caucasus Barometer, Pearce writes that internet penetration tripled from 2009 to 2010 within Armenia. According to Pearce, the…

The Caucasus Barometer 2010 Dataset Is Available!

7 April, 2011

What are the social, political and economic attitudes of people in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan? Do Georgians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis think employment or territorial integrity is the most important issue facing their respective countries? How do they judge the fairness…

CRRC-Azerbaijan Junior Research Fellows Compete for the Best PowerPoint Presentation

6 April, 2011

On March 11, 2011, the participants of CRRC-Azerbaijan’s Junior Research Fellowship Program (JRFP) competed for the best PowerPoint presentations based on data from the 2009 Caucasus Barometer (CB). The event was their first time demonstrating their skills in organizing and…

Caucasus Barometer 2010 reveals Georgian attitudes towards Indians

6 April, 2011

A recent article in Georgia Today entitled “India through the eyes of Georgian children” described an exhibition, which was hosted by Bharatma, a Georgian-Indian cultural organization established 20 years ago, in which young Georgian public school students displayed artwork portraying their visions…

Presentation Summary | Georgian-Abkhaz ‘Dialogue through Research’

5 April, 2011

On March, 30 2011 Archil Gegeshidze and Ivlian Haindrava presented findings on the politics of non-recognition as well as results from a forthcoming study on the de-isolation of Abkhazia. Abkhaz and Georgian researchers compiled their findings after conducting interviews and…

Ask CRRC | Sampling Weights II

29 March, 2011

Now, let’s move from this simple example to the Caucasus Barometer. When selecting respondents for the CB, CRRC first divides the country into nine geographic divisions: the capital, urban-northeast, urban-northwest, urban-southeast, urban-southwest, rural-northeast, rural-northwest, rural-southeast and rural-southwest.