Quantitative Survey: Civil Society and Civic Participation in the Caucasus

The ISSICEU survey is original in covering the South Caucasus and parts of the North Caucasus. It combines questions on attitudes towards civic activism with an assessment of the respondents’ direct involvement in such activities. The survey further covers attitudes towards religion and habits to practice one’s religion. These data allow to explore the impact of religion on attitudes towards and practices of civic participation.

The data will in 2017 be available for scholarly studies. For accessing the data please contact: Katharina Hoffmann

Survey Sections:

Religion
Trust
Electoral and Political Participation
De Facto Civic Participation
Justification of Civic Participation
Local and External NGOs and International Organisations: form, function, trust
Demographic Data

Caucasus Regions Covered: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the North Caucasus Republics of the Russian Federation Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachevo-Cherkessia (not covering secessionist regions in the South Caucasus)

Data collection period:

October-Novmber 2014	Karachevo-Cherkessia
January-February 2015	Kabardino-Balkaria
February-June 2015	Armenia
February-June 2015	Georgia
May-July 2015	Azerbaijan

Survey Sample: 1000 in each South Caucasus republic, 490 Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachevo-Cherkessia respectively

Survey Methodology: Standardised “face-to-face” interviews on paper in households in the respective local language

Data Format: SAV, CSV, XLSX

Surveying companies:

Armenia	Caucasus Research Resource Center –Armenia, Yerevan
Azerbaijan	International Center for Social Research – Azerbaijan, Baku
Georgia	Caucasus Research Resource Center – Georgia, Tbilisi
North Caucasus	Kabardino-Balkarian State University –Russia, Nalchik