MENA: opinion on state handling of COVID-19 by country 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 approve of their government's response to the COVID-19 outbreak was in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at an approval rate of 100 percent. The average approval rate of respondents among surveyed countries to the handling of governments during the pandemic was 71 percent.

Youth opinion on government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa region in 2020, by country

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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: "How strongly do you approve or disapprove of the way your government is handing the response to the COVID-19 outbreak?"
Excluding the "Don't know" responses. 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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