MENA: opinion protests likely post COVID-19 by reason 2020

The results of a survey in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2020 about the Arab youth, showed that the highest percentage of respondents who were young Arabs believed that the protests against the political status quo was much more likely or somewhat more likely following the COVID-19 pandemic due to the issues of rising prices and availability of jobs at 71 percent and 65 percent of respondents respectively.

Share of Arab youth on why protests are more likely after the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa in 2020, by reason

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Release date

October 2020

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Region

MENA

Survey time period

January 19 to August 26, 2020

Number of respondents

4,000 respondents

Age group

18-24 years

Special properties

Interview conducted in Arabic and English

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview, online survey

Supplementary notes

The survey question was as follows: "Why do you think these types of protests are now more likely in your country? Please select all that apply."
As a follow up question to: "Thinking about the impact of COVID-19, has it made protests against the political status quo more or less likely in your country?"
Showing results for "Much more likely", and "Somewhat more likely".
The study was conducted in in two parts:
The first part was The Main Survey conducted in 17 countries between January 19 and March 3 2020 before the coronavirus outbreak with a count of 3,400 face-to face interviews, Covered countries were Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen. Syria and Sudan were recently added to the latest year's version of the survey in 2020. Each country had 200 respondent. Margin of error for this survey was +/-1.7 percent.
The second COVID-19 Pulse Survey between August 18 and 26, 2020 following the COVID-19 crisis with a count of 600 face-to-face and online interviews divided equally between six countries: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria, and Egypt. Margin of error for this survey was +/-4.0 percent.
All respondents were exclusively citizens of their countries and they were 50% male and female.

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