Browsing Social & Economic Survey Research Institute by Author "Diop, Abdoulaye"
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2012 SURVEY OF MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL (GCC)COUNTRIES
( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University. , 2015 , Report)This report presents the results of the 2012 GCC survey of migrant workers residing in Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study was conducted by the Social and Economic Survey Research ... -
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
( Springer Singapore , 2019 , Book chapter)Though transnational labour migration in the Gulf States has increasingly been of scholarly interest, that scholarship has to date relied largely on qualitative ethnographic methodologies or small non-representative sampling ... -
Annual Omnibus Survey : A survey of life in Qatar 2012
( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University. , 2012 , Other)This executive summary presents the highlights of the 2012 Omnibus survey, the third in a series of Omnibus surveys, carried out by the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) of Qatar University. The Omnibus ... -
Antecedents of Trust among Citizens and Non-citizens in Qatar
( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Article)Utilizing new survey data on social capital, we examine the determinants and locus of generalized trust among citizens and immigrants in Qatar, a small, heterogeneous, wealthy, and non-democratic country in which immigrants ... -
Attitudes Towards Migrant Workers in the GCC: Evidence from Qatar
( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2012 , Article)With the majority of Qatar’s total population made up of foreigners (high-skilled and low-skilled migrant workers), Qatari nationals may feel that there are significant challenges for their society; despite the absence ... -
Business legacy planning for mega events: The case of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This study aimed to explore the processes of business networking which lays the foundation for business legacy outcomes initiated by the award of a mega event in a region. Building on the work of Spilling (1996) on mega ... -
Civic life and democratic citizenship in Qatar: Findings from the First Qatar World Values Survey
( Brill Academic , 2013 , Article)The present study examines the Arab nation that has remained least affected by the regional upheaval that has gripped much of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of 2011: the Gulf state of Qatar. Using ... -
Civil society and democratization in the Arab Gulf
( http://foreignpolicy.com/ , 2011 , Article)qatar has been a notable exception to the wave of popular political mobilization that has struck Arab countries since January 2011. This is particularly so given the prominent role of its state-owned television station Al ... -
Gender Prespecified Sampling for Cost Control
( Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved , 2014 , Article)Nationally representative surveys administered in the Middle East and North Africa typically are conducted using methodological techniques developed from outside the region. Sometimes these best practices require ... -
Legacy perceptions among Qatari nationals: What legacies will the 2022 World Cup bring?
( European Association for Sport Management conference , 2016 , Conference Paper)Qatar has been awarded to host the 2022 World Cup. For the Middle East this event can bring a number of changes in the region for sport and urban development. Given that the event was awarded very early in Qatar (2010) by ... -
Migration Policies across the GCC: Challenges in Reforming the Kafala
( Gulf Research Center Cambridge , 2018 , Book chapter)Much of the debate over immigration policy in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar) revolves around the kafala, or sponsorship system. In ... -
Perceptions and Impacts of the Oil Crash in Qatar
(2016 , Report)Qatari citizens, especially those employed in the public sector, are less likely than other people living in Qatar to be aware of the recent decline in oil prices. Among citizens who are aware, moreover, most seem to ... -
Qatar Education Study 2012- Students’ Motivation and Parental
( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University. , 2012 , Other)This report examines the views of children, parents, teachers, and administrators toward K-12 education in Qatar. It is based on results from the Qatar Education Study (QES), which is a series of surveys conducted by the ... -
QATAR EDUCATION STUDY : Facilities Report 2012
( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University. , 2015 , Other)This report examines the views of students, teachers and administrators toward K-12 education in Qatar. It is based on results from the Qatar Education Study (QES), which is a series of surveys conducted by the Social ... -
Reform of the Kafāla System: A Survey Experiment from Qatar
( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2016 , Article)Immigration in the Arabian Gulf is governed by the kafāla (sponsorship) system, which provides the legal basis for the residency and employment of foreign workers across the region. Despite mounting economic, political ... -
Social Capital and Citizens’ Attitudes towards Migrant Workers
( Cogitatio Press , 2017 , Article)This study examines Qatari citizens’ attitudes toward migrant workers. While much research has been conducted on citizens’ attitudes toward the abolition, tightening, or loosening of the Kafāla system in the Gulf Cooperation ... -
Trusted News Sources’ Measures and their Relationships to Social and Public Attitudes: An Analysis of the First Annual Omnibus Survey of Life in Qatar
( Georgia State Univesrity , 2013 , Article)An overwhelming majority (77 percent) of Qatari Nationals reported television as their most trusted local news source (87 percent for Arab/regional news and 89 percent for international news), and 80 percent rated the ... -
Who needs RDD? Combining directory listings with cell phone exchanges for an alternative telephone sampling frame
( Elsevier , 2011 , Article)Abstract The traditional Random Digit Dialing method (list-assisted RDD using a frame of landline phone numbers) is clearly under threat. The difficulty and costs of completing telephone surveys have increased due to ... -
Working and living conditions of migrant workers in the GCC
( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book chapter)Since Qatar was awarded the hosting of the 2022 World Cup, a great deal of media attention has focused on the conditions of the foreign workers responsible for creating and maintaining the infrastructure of the modern Gulf ...
