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  • Survey results are based on national samples.
  • Due to rounding, percentages may not total 100%. The topline “total” columns show 100% because they are based on unrounded numbers.
  • Not all questions included in the Spring 2014 survey are presented in this topline. Omitted questions have either been previously released or will be released in future reports.
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    Survey Methods

    About the 2014 Spring Pew Global Attitudes Survey

    Results for the survey are based on face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Survey results are based on national samples. For further details on sample designs, see below.

    The descriptions below show the margin of sampling error based on all interviews conducted in that country. For results based on the full sample in a given country, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus the margin of error. In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.

    Country: Egypt
    Sample design: Multi-stage cluster sample stratified by governorates and urbanity
    Mode: Face-to-face adults 18 plus
    Languages: Arabic
    Fieldwork dates: April 10 – April 29, 2014
    Sample size: 1,000
    Margin of error: +/-4.3 percentage points
    Representative: Adult population (excluding frontier governorates, or about 2% of the population)
    Country: Israel
    Sample design: Multi-stage cluster sample stratified by district, urbanity, and socioeconomic status, with an oversample of Arabs
    Mode: Face-to-face adults 18 plus
    Languages: Hebrew, Arabic
    Fieldwork dates: April 24 – May 11, 2014
    Sample size: 1,000 (597 Jews, 388 Arabs, 15 others)
    Margin of Error: +/-4.3 percentage points
    Representative: Adult population (The data were weighted to reflect the actual distribution of Jews, Arabs and others in Israel.)
    Country: Jordan
    Sample design: Multi-stage cluster sample stratified by governorate and urbanity
    Mode: Face-to-face adults 18 plus
    Languages: Arabic
    Fieldwork dates: April 11 – April 29, 2014
    Sample size: 1,000
    Margin of Error: +/-4.5 percentage points
    Representative: Adult population
    Country: Lebanon
    Sample design: Multi-stage cluster sample stratified by region and urbanity
    Mode: Face-to-face adults 18 plus
    Languages: Arabic
    Fieldwork dates: April 11 – May 2, 2014
    Sample size: 1,000
    Margin of Error: +/-4.1 percentage points
    Representative: Adult population (excluding a small area in Beirut controlled by a militia group and a few villages in the south of Lebanon, which border Israel and are inaccessible to outsiders, or about 2% of the population)
    Country: Palestinian territories
    Sample design: Multi-stage cluster sample stratified by region and urban/rural/refugee camp population
    Mode: Face-to-face adults 18 plus
    Languages: Arabic
    Fieldwork dates: April 15 – April 22, 2014
    Sample size: 1,000
    Margin of Error: +/-4.4 percentage points
    Representative: Adult population (excluding Bedouins who regularly change residence and some communities near Israeli settlements where military restrictions make access difficult, or roughly 5% of the population)
    Country: Tunisia
    Sample design: Multi-stage cluster sample stratified by governorate and urbanity
    Mode: Face-to-face adults 18 plus
    Languages: Tunisian Arabic
    Fieldwork dates: April 19 – May 9, 2014
    Sample size: 1,000
    Margin of Error: +/-4.0 percentage points
    Representative: Adult population
    Country: Turkey
    Sample design: Multi-stage cluster sample stratified by region, urbanity and settlement size
    Mode: Face-to-face adults 18 plus
    Languages: Turkish
    Fieldwork dates: April 11 – May 16, 2014
    Sample size: 1,001
    Margin of Error: +/-4.5 percentage points
    Representative: Adult population

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