About AOI  2016

The 2016 Arab Opinion Index is the fifth in a series of yearly public opinion surveys across the Arab world. The first survey was conducted in 2011, with following surveys in 2012/2013 and 2014. The 2015 survey was conducted in the same set of countries listed below, and with a sample size of 18,311 individuals. The 2016 Arab Opinion Index is based on the findings from face-to-face interviews conducted with 18,310 individual respondents in 12 separate Arab countries: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania. Sampling followed a randomized, stratified, multi-stage, self-weighted clustered approach,

giving an overall margin of error between +/- 2 % and 3% for the individual country samples. The overall samples guarantee probability-proportional-to-size (PPS), ensuring Fairness in the representation of various population segments. With an aggregate sample size of 18,311 respondents, the Arab Opinion Index remains the largest public opinion survey in the Arab world. The fieldwork was carried out by an overall team of 840 individuals (half of whom were women), who conducted 45,000 hours of face-to-face interviews, covering a total of 760,000 kilometers across the population clusters sampled. 

Countries in which the Arab Opinion Index Survey was conducted

Name of Country Date of Fieldwork
Palestine 07-09-2016 - 22-09-2016
Lebanon
13-09-2016 - 18-10-2016
Tunisia
14-09-2016 - 27-10-2016
Iraq
19-09-2016 - 13-10-2016
Algeria
23-09-2016 - 17-10-2016
Saudi Arabia
28-09-2016 - 20-10-2016
Sudan
29-09-2016 - 31-10-2016
​Egypt
5-10-2016 - 14-11-2016
Mauritania
11-10-2016 - 25-11-2016
Jordan
13-10-2016 - 20-10-2016
Kuwait
19-10-2016 - 20-11-2016
Morocco
24-11-2016 - 28-12-2016