METHODOLOGY
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This national representative survey was carried out on August 24 - September 10, 2011 by SIAR-
Bishkek for Baltic Surveys/Gallup on behalf of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and was
funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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The sample consisted of 1,500 residents of Kyrgyzstan older than the age of 18 and eligible to vote
and is representative of the general population by age, gender, education and religion.
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The sample design was a multi-stage random sample.
-Stage One: Break country into official administrative regions.
-Stage Two: Select clusters of sampling points based on settlement population (rural and
urban areas). One sample point = approximately one percent of survey population (12-
17 surveys). Sampling points within each region were selected by the probability
proportional to size sampling.
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Respondents were selected by the random route method, using a Kish table to select a respondent
from within a household.
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Data is collected through face-to-face interviews with the respondents.
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Seventy-three interviewers worked on the survey. Interviews were conducted in Kyrgyz, Russian
and Uzbek languages.
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The response rate for the survey was 69 percent.
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The margin of error does not exceed three percent.
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The study was designed, coordinated, and analyzed by IRI and Baltic Surveys/The Gallup
Organization (Dr. R. Alisauskiene).
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Due to rounding, some charts may not add to 100 percent.
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IRI, Baltic Surveys / The Gallup Organization Kyrgyzstan National Opinion Poll, August-September, 2011