Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies will announce the results of Arab Opinion Index 2016 at a press conference on March 13.
The centre said that the findings of 2016 opinion survey are based on 18,310 face-to-face interviews conducted by 840 researchers between September 10 and December 30/2016 in different Arab countries.
The opinion poll is the largest public survey of its kind in the Arab world which measure the most important changes in the Arab world and general trends during the year. The results of the annual survey are expected to give scholars an opportunity to understand how the Arab citizens view the most pressing issues such as attitudes towards democracy, institutional performances evaluations, and superpowers' policies towards the Arab region.
Conducting the Arab Opinion Index for the fifth consecutive year by the Arab Center allows scholars, policy makers and researchers to make comparisons with the findings of the previous years to see the changes which happened in the Arab public attitudes towards the main issues surveyed since the launch of the survey in 2011.
