About AOI  2017/2018

The 2017-2018 Arab Opinion Index is the sixth 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, 2014, 2015, and 2016. The 2017-2018 Arab Opinion Index is based on the findings from face-to-face interviews conducted with 18,830 individual respondents in 11 separate Arab countries: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, 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 18,830; 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, equally balanced on gender, who conducted 45,000 hours of face-to-face interviews. The team covered a total of 700,000 kilometers across the population clusters sampled.ensuring

Countries in which the Arab Opinion Index Survey was conducted

Name of Country Date of Fieldwork
Iraq 24-12-2017 - 27-01-2018
​Palestine
27-12-2017 - 10-01-2018
​Tunisia
29-12-2017 - 25-01-2018
​Lebanon
09-01-2018 - 19-02-2018
​Sudan
31-12-2018 - 15-03-2018
​Egypt
04-02-2018 - 03-03-2018
​Kuwait
10-02-2018 - 28-02-2018
​Jordan
06-03-2018 - 25-03-2018
​Morocco
12-03-2018 - 31-03-2018
​Mauritania
20-03-2018 - 11-04-2018
​Saudi Arabia
20-03-2018 - 24-04-2018