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Qatar Education Study 2012- Students’ Motivation and Parental
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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 ...
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 ...
Who needs RDD? Combining directory listings with cell phone exchanges for an alternative telephone sampling frame
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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 ...
Civic life and democratic citizenship in Qatar: Findings from the First Qatar World Values Survey
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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 ...
Reform of the Kafāla System: A Survey Experiment from Qatar
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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 ...
Gender Prespecified Sampling for Cost Control
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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 ...
Attitudes Towards Migrant Workers in the GCC: Evidence from Qatar
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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 ...
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 ...
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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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 ...