Report of Simple Tally of “Middle East Public Opinion Survey (Syrian Refugees in Turkey 2019)”

CMEPS-J Report No. 52 (January 24, 2020)

Kohei IMAI (Institute of Developing Economies – JETRO)
Yutaka TAKAOA (Middle East Institute of Japan)
Shingo HAMANAKA (Ryukoku University)
Kota SUECHIKA (Ritsumeikan University)
Aiko NISHIKIDA (Keio University)
Dai YAMAO (Kyushu University)
Masaki MIZOBUCHI (Nagoya University of Commerce and Business)
Hiroyuki AOYAMA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

I. Purpose of Survey

“Middle East Opinion Survey (Syrian Refugees in Turkey 2019),” through the analysis of tally and quantitation of results of the opinion survey conducted on the Syrian refugees residing in Turkey, has the purpose of (1) grasping how the Syrian refugees view refugee assistance activities of donor countries and NGOs, and (2) proposing what contributions should be made to the politics, social economy and culture of host countries, among which is Turkey.

II. Cooperative Organization and Collaborative Research Projects

The survey was conducted with full support of Infakto Research Workshop (İnfakto Araştırma Danışmanlık Dış Tic.Ltd. Şti, Founding Parter: Güçlü Atılgan) in finalizing the contents of the questionnaire, sampling, conducting interviews with respondents and inputting data. Coordination with Infakto was made en bloc by Kohei IMAI (researcher at the Institute of Developing Economies – JETRO), who is the co-investigator in the project entitled “Roles of Informal Actors in Reconstruction and/or Destruction of the State: Case Studies of the Arab East”.

III. Method of Survey

1. Survey Schedule

April 23 – July 29, 2019: preparation of a draft of the questionnaire by the members of the project “Roles of Informal Actors in Reconstruction and/or Destruction of the State: Case Studies of the Arab East”.
August 7, 2019: formal agreement conducted between the project “Roles of Informal Actors in Reconstruction and/or Destruction of the State: Case Studies of the Arab East” and Infakto on conducting the suvey “Middle East Public Opinion Survey (Syrian Refugees in Turkey 2019)”.
August 7 – October 28, 2019: preparation and coordination by Infakto for conducting the survey and finalizing the questionnaire.
November 6 – November 28, 2019: the main survey conducted by Infakto in Adana, Gaziantep, Hatay, Mersin, İstanbul, Şanlıurfa, and Kilis provinces.
December 6, 2019: completing data entry by Infakto.

2. Survey Subjects

A total of 1,217 Syrian refugees aged 18 to 70 years and residing in Turkey were selected to participate in the survey. 4 people who were over 71 years old, confirmed in the data cleaning process, and aggregation was done, including the data on these 4 people.

3. Survey Method

Door-to-door individual personal interview in Arabic.

4. Survey methods

According to the statistics of UNHCR, 3,576,659 Syrian refugees are living in Turkey (as of Janyary 9, 2020). In the survey, the following 7 provinces (22 districts), where 70 percent of them are hosted, were selected as self-representing units and define the number of samples (interviewees) proportionate to number of Syrian living there.
In the selected provinces, neighborhoods were selected with consultation which the local authorities, by fixing the number of interviewees conducted in each neighborhood with 12. In these neighborhoods, 3 streets are selected by using a Kish table and 4 interviewees are completed in each street through random walk.