Javno mnjenje Srbije 2022: Metodološke karakteristike istraživanja (JMS 2022/65)
Public opinion of Serbia 2022: Methodological characteristics of the research (JMS 2022/65)

Author(s): Bojan Todosijević
Subject(s): Politics, Methodology and research technology, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: online survey; questionnaire; sample; methodology; weights
Summary/Abstract: This introductory chapter presents the basic methodological characteristics of the public opinion survey entitled ”Value Attitudes of the Citizens on to the Democratic Transformation of Serbia in the Past Three Decades (1990-2022)” (Public Opinion of Serbia 2022 – JMS 2022/65), which was conducted by the Centre for Political Research and Public Opinion of the Institute of Social Sciences from Belgrade. The survey was based on a convenience sample of respondents of national scope, based on self-administering the questionnaires, either via the Internet (a large part of the sample), or by completing printed copies of the questionnaire. The research is devoted to the attitudes of citizens towards current social and political issues, as well as their perception of political processes, i.e., democratic transformations in the past three decades. The researcher’s intention was to gain insight into the way in which the citizens of Serbia perceive the social and political situation in Serbia, both today, and as it has been since the re-introduction of the multi-party system. This paper includes details about the sampling methods, the method of recruiting respondents, content of the questionnaire, characteristics of the survey process (self-completing of the online questionnaire), the characteristics of the realized sample, and the weights. Suggestions are made regarding the interpretation of the results based on non-probabilistic samples.

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