Jobs, rising prices, poverty top national concerns - NDI survey

To the survey question about the most important national issues facing citizens, 36 percent of respondents named jobs, 35 percent noted rising prices and inflation, and 32 percent highlighted poverty. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge

Agenda.ge, 16 Sep 2022 - 14:34, Tbilisi,Georgia

Jobs, rising prices and poverty were named as the top national concerns in a new survey released on Friday by the US National Democratic Institute and CRRC Georgia.

To the survey question about the most important national issues facing citizens, 36 percent of respondents named jobs, 35 percent noted rising prices and inflation, and 32 percent highlighted poverty.

In the remaining answers, 26 percent went for the issue of restoration of the country’s territorial integrity, while 18 named pension-related issues and 14 percent pointed to human rights.

The majority of respondents said the situation regarding territorial integrity, poverty and crime had worsened over the last 10 years.

The survey also noted that ethnic minorities were more likely than others to name poverty as their pressing concern. Unlike the rest of Georgian citizens, ethnic minorities did not name territorial integrity among the most important national issues.

The nationwide survey was conducted between July 14-August 15 through face-to-face interviews with a nationwide representative sample of Georgia’s adult population, excluding the occupied territories. 

The August poll included 2,104 completed interviews with the average margin of error at 2 percent.