Arab Opinion Index 2016

The fifth Arab Opinion Index survey was carried out between September and December 2016 through face-to-face interviews and yielded 18,310 responses from 12 Arab countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Tunisia). It measured public opinion trends related to the degree of citizens’ satisfaction with their economic conditions, standards of living, and the level of services they receive, as well as their views on democracy, political participation, and the impact of religion on general and political life. It also covered how much confidence citizens have in state institutions, how they define the sources of threats to their personal or national security, their perceptions of their Arab surroundings and their positions towards Arab revolutions and ISIS.