Some thoughts -
* The survey of 2.5 lakh would certainly be exhaustive but I personally
feel it could be over-done. Sampling can be somewhat lesser than that to
yield more focussed results (for easier post-survey processing, I suppose).
* But that said, the survey could seek to not to fully replicate efforts
such as what the CSDS' Lokniti already does. One weakness I believe that
the Lokniti surveys have is that while the questionnaires gauge background
and attitude towards politics variables quite well, they don't necessarily
capture reasons and expectations that much well.
So, for e.g.,if the questionnaire and data can be more than just "what are
the reasons you vote for a candidate" .. maybe, "why do you think your
choice of party/candidate is better than the alternative".. "what schemes
have you benefitted from during MP's tenure / or hope to benefit from"..
Also, opinions such as "who do you think could be an ideal leader?" to
reflect opinions on the kind of representatives they would like to have ...
is another thing that would be helpful.
* Beyond political opinion, better knowledge of class backgrounds will also
be useful (in terms of profession, homes, access to facilities etc).
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Kishore (Narasimhan) Mandyam <
kish...@dakshindia.org> wrote:
> Daksh is currently conducting a Nationwide in-field survey about people's
> perceptions about their MPs. We're talking to nearly 2.5 lakh (that's
> 250,000!) people in nearly 10,000 locations, in over 500 MP constituencies.
> The math works out to about 500 responses in each Constituency - stratified
> and randomized enough to give an analyst a fairly clear picture of what
> people are thinking. The data consists of 10 demographic details (gender,
> rural/urban resident, religion, occupation, qualification, roof-type,
> assets owned, etc.), four "political awareness" points ("Did you vote..?",
> "What are the reasons you vote for a candidate?" and so on) and upto 30
> issue-based Performance questions (bijli / sadak / paani kinds of things).
> Respondents tell us how important they think a specific issue is (Low /
> Medium / High) AND how well they think their MP has done in that specific
> issue. We've done thins kind of thing for Karnataka MLAs before and one of
> the more populist results was a series of MLA Scorecards that appeared
> pre-election in Vijay Karnataka, Indian Express and Times of India in 2013.
> With this much-wider survey, though, we're wondering about the various
> other things we could do - from mapping people's perceptions about caste
> and criminality to inferring rural and urban unemployment rates. But that's
> probably the low-hanging fruit. How else could this data be used? Ideas
> welcome!
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