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| State of the Nations Survey January 2009 |
Lokniti CSDS and Hindustan Times in partnership with CNN-IBN conducted the recent round of SONSJanuary 2009 which seeks to gauge public opinion on issues related to politics and
democracy. The major thematic issues of the study were Terrorism and Pakistan, Law & Order and Faith on
Police & Courts, Citizen's Participation in Public Life, Commitment to Democracy, Faith in Government
Institutions, etc.
The survey was conducted in 18 Indian states and a total of 14786 people were interviewed in a face-to-face situation using a structured questionnaire translated in the local dialect of the state in which he or she resided. The social profile of the achieved sample is- 75% Rural population, 44% women, 78% Hindu, 12% Muslim, 5% Sikh, 3% Christian, 20% Dalits and 8% Aadivasi. The fieldwork for the survey was conducted from the 8th to 15th January 2009.
The fieldwork for the survey was coordinated by P. Narasimha Rao (Andhra Pradesh), Sandhya Goswami
(Assam), Rakesh Ranjan (Bihar), Bhupendra Sahu (Chhatisgarh), Mahasweta Jani & Bhanu Parmar
(Gujarat), Dr. Harish Kumar (Haryana), Harishwar Dayal and B.K Sinha (Jharkhand), Padmavathi B.S
(Karnataka), Sajad Ibrahim (Kerala), Ram Shankar & Yatindra Sisodia (Madhya Pradesh), Nitin Birmal
(Maharashtra), Surya Narayan Mishra (Orissa), Jagroop Singh Sekhon (Punjab), Sanjay Lodha (Rajasthan),
Gundapuneni Koteswara Prasad (Tamil Nadu), Mirza Asmer Beg (Uttar Pradesh West), A.K. Verma
(Uttar Pradesh Central), Sudhir Kumar (Uttar Pradesh East), Suprio Basu (West Bengal) and CSDS Central
Team (Delhi).
The survey was directed by Sanjay Kumar of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi.
The Central team that designed, coordinated and analyzed the survey comprised of Yogendra Yadav,
Praveen Rai, Pavithra Suryanarayan, Dhananjai Joshi, K.A.Q.A Hilal, Himanshu Bhattacharya, Kanchan Malhotra of CSDS.
Main Findings in HT
State of the Nations Survey Jan 2009 (English)
SONS Jan 2009 (Hindi)
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