World Bank Group Country Survey 2015
Afghanistan, 2014 - 2015
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World Bank Group Country Survey 2015
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | AFG |
The World Bank Group Country Opinion Survey Program systematically measures and tracks the perceptions of the World Bank Group's clients, partners, and other stakeholders across the globe in client countries.
The Public Opinion Research Group (PORG) surveyed 29 countries in FY2012 (July 2011-June 2012) and 41 countries in FY2013 (July 2012-June 2013). In FY2014, surveys were conducted in 42 countries and in FY2015 - in 35 countries. Nearly all of the World Bank Group's client countries are surveyed in three year cycles.
The Country Opinion Survey in Afghanistan assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Afghanistan perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Afghanistan on:
- their views regarding the general environment in Afghanistan;
- their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Afghanistan;
- overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Afghanistan;
- their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Afghanistan.
Stakeholders of the World Bank Group in Afghanistan
Version
v01, edited anonymous dataset for public distribution
Coding schemes of output data:
- Single-choice questions: Response options are coded according to corresponding numbers in the questionnaire.
- Multiple-choice questions: When a response option is checked, it is coded as "1," when a response option is not checked, it is coded as "0."
- 10-point scale questions: "1" corresponds to the lowest value, "10" corresponds to the highest value. "Don't know" is coded as "11."
- Yes/No questions: "Yes" is coded as "1," "No" is coded as "2."
Scope
The scope of the study includes:
- General issues facing Afghanistan
- Overall attitudes toward the World Bank Group
- World Bank Group's effectiveness and results
- The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF)
- The World Bank Group's knowledge work and activities
- Working with the World Bank Group
- The future role of the World Bank Group in Afghanistan
- Communication and information sharing
- Respondents background information
Coverage
Kabul, outside Kabul
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Public Opinion Research Group | World Bank Group |
| Name |
|---|
| World Bank Group |
Sampling
In December 2014, 500 stakeholders of the WBG in Afghanistan were invited to provide their opinions on the WBG's work in the country by participating in a country opinion survey.
Participants were drawn from the office of the President, the Chief Executive Officer; office of a minister; office of a parliamentarian; ministries/ministerial departments; consultants/contractors working on WBG-supported projects/programs; PMUs; local governments; bilateral and multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; private foundations; the financial sector/private banks; NGOs; community based organizations; the media; independent government institutions; trade unions; youth groups; academia/research institutes/think tanks; judiciary branch; and other organizations.
A total of 407 stakeholders participated in the survey (91% response rate).
91%
The results in this year’s Country Survey were compared to those in the Country Surveys conducted in FY’12 and FY’08. Data were weighted to reach the same stakeholder composition in three years, which allows for year comparisons. Stakeholder groups which were not present in all three fiscal years were not included in the comparison. Respondents who belonged to the “other” stakeholder category were not included either. As a result, means of the FY’ 15 data and the total number of respondents in three years are slightly different from those of the original data reported in appendices A, B, C, D, E, G, and H. For the weighted stakeholder breakdown and year comparison results, please see appendix F (page 152).
Survey instrument
English, Pashto and Dari.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2014-12 | 2015-01 |
Pajhwok Afghan News
Face-to-face, mail and email.
Depositor information
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Dania Mendoza | World Bank |
Data Access
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example,
Public Opinion Research Group (The World Bank Group). Afghanistan World Bank Group Country Survey (WBCS) 2015, Ref. AFG_2015_WBCS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Jing Guo | ECRGP, World Bank | jguo1@worldbankgroup.org |
| Svetlana Markova | ECRGP, World Bank | smarkova@worldbankgroup.org |
Metadata production
DDI_AFG_2015_WBCS_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | World Bank | Study documentation |
| GP External Comms. | World Bank | DDI documentation |
2016-05-20
Metadata version
v01 (May 2016)