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Public Opinion Polling and the Millennium Development Goals

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  • Jude Fransman
  • Alphonse L. MacDonald
  • Ida McDonnell
  • Nicolas Pons-Vignon

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Monitoring changes in public awareness and attitudes in rich countries towards aid and other international development policy issues is extremely difficult: due to lack of systematic polling or monitoring, there is no reliable, comparable data across DAC member countries. This paper suggests a way to address this problem: a common questionnaire for all DAC countries to use in their national surveys, centred on the Millennium Development Goals. It sums up the process that led to the setting up of this questionnaire, provides a short analysis of the main methodological issues and brings together three versions, respectively for face-to-face, phone or mail processing. These should allow information and communication professionals, as well as policy makers, to improve the comparability of public opinion surveys in OECD DAC member countries on development and the MDGs, especially if — as proposed by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Development — parts of the ... Il est particulièrement difficile de suivre avec précision l’évolution de l’opinion publique dans les pays riches au sujet de l’aide internationale et des autres politiques de développement : en l’absence d’enquêtes systématiques, il n’y a tout simplement aucune base de données fiables et comparables pour l’ensemble des pays membres du Comité d’Aide au Développement (CAD) de l’OCDE. Ce document propose une solution : un questionnaire commun destiné à tous les pays du CAD, prêt à l’emploi dans leurs enquêtes nationales, et centré sur les Objectifs de développement du millénaire (ODM). Il en synthétise le processus d’élaboration, analyse brièvement les principaux problèmes méthodologiques et rassemble en annexe les trois versions finales (face à face, par téléphone ou par courrier). Ce questionnaire devrait permettre aux professionnels de l’information et de la communication, ainsi qu’aux décideurs politiques, d’améliorer la comparabilité des enquêtes d’opinion dans les pays membres ...

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  • Jude Fransman & Alphonse L. MacDonald & Ida McDonnell & Nicolas Pons-Vignon, 2004. "Public Opinion Polling and the Millennium Development Goals," OECD Development Centre Working Papers 238, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:devaaa:238-en
    DOI: 10.1787/645770304446
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    1. Spencer Henson & John‐Michael Davis & Liam Swiss, 2022. "Understanding public support for Canadian aid to developing countries: The role of information," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 40(1), January.
    2. Thierry Mayer, 2006. "Policy Coherence for Development : A Background paper on Foreign Direct Investment," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-01065640, HAL.
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