A few years ago I wrote a report summarizing a USAID-funded CRRC-conducted study of the Armenian media environment. They re-did this study this summer (no report seems to be available yet), but the data is up so I will be slowly but surely posting some findings. Let’s start with media trust. This graphic makes it…
September 10 is World Suicide Prevention day. The most recent data on suicide in Azerbaijan is from 2007. However, according to this (iffy) website, suicide is the 20th most common cause of death in Azerbaijan, with over 400 each year. In an informal analysis of Azerbaijani news stories, I came up with 6 young female…
(I did a quick blog post on this earlier this year, FWIW) Attitudes toward protest is one of my favorite Caucasus Barometer questions. (Sarah Kendzior and I wrote a piece centered around this measure in 2012). It is an interesting way to ask a question in a vignette format. People are asked which statement they…
Last year I wrote a blog post about triangulating different data sources. I used the example of mobile phone ownership and the ITU, Caucasus Barometer, and Gallup. In that post I said: “The point I’d like to make is that these statistics are complicated and it is hard to get at the “right” number. That’s…
An online petition has been recently been circulating through Azerbaijani Internet circles asking people to support freeing youth activists who have been arrested in 2013, in light of the October 2013 presidential election. As of early August, 2000 people have signed. (The hashtag suggests they need 10,000 signatures.) I’m pretty meh about online petitions, although…
The Azerbaijani opposition has cooperated and agreed upon (for now) a single candidate for the upcoming presidential election: Rustam Ibragimbekov. Ibragimbekov (Ibrahimbekov /Ibrahimbeyov / Ibragimbeyov) is a 74-year-old screenwriter, best known for winning an Oscar for the (awesome) 1995 film “Burnt by the Sun.” (Well, it won best foreign film, so he shared the award.)…
Here’s a 2012 update to this slideshow. Azerbaijanicts2013 from Katy Pearce
By requests, let’s look at voting behaviors in the 2012 Caucasus Barometer. Do Caucasians think that it is important for a good citizen to vote? With three-quarters of Georgians believing that it is extremely important for a good citizen to vote (mean 8.74/10), and less than two-thirds of Armenians (8.37/10) and half of Azerbaijanis believing…
USDA just released new data on household spending in various countries and looked at percentage of household spending on food. Azerbaijan is the second highest percentage of food versus household expenditures in the world. link Azerbaijanis spend 2,862 USD on all household expenditures and 1,257 USD on food per capita. This means food is 44%…