This battery is designed to gauge perceptions of common types of electoral integrity and malpractice.
Each year, Transparency International draws on surveys of businessmen and country experts to gauge perceptions of corruption in 159 countries around the world.
The series was intended to gauge perceptions of and attitudes in the public services as they prepare to move from a golden age of bumper year-on-year spending increases into a period of relative austerity.
The survey also sought to gauge perceptions of corruption: people from sub-Saharan Africa held the most negative view of corruption in institutions, while 47 countries identified parliament or congress as the institution with the most corrupt members, with 32 countries putting the police in first place.
Semi-structures household interviews were conducted with various stakeholder groups to identify what tree products are used, to ascertain amounts used as well as to gauge perceptions of natural resource use between different tree species and use over time.
The goals of the survey, which polled undergraduate and graduate students, were to quantify the number of students involved in community service in and around Johns Hopkins and the Baltimore community, measure feelings about community involvement and gauge perceptions of barriers to involvement.
Scaled responses were used to gauge perceptions of the following characteristics of their job: management authority, accountability, career development, recruitment pattern of staff and their deployment, payment schedule, promotion opportunity and survival strategy.
The data include measures of voting intention, partisan affiliation, standard demographic variables (education, income, age, and race), as well as items gauging perceptions of voter fraud and media bias.
For the research to gauge the perception of walkability, a case study was conducted in a neighborhood that provided an opportunity to analyze the walking behavior of pedestrians in a variety of urban built environment.
The purpose of this survey is to gauge local perception of disorder problems occurring in the neighborhood and how this relates to perception of crime.
