The survey on ‘Citizens’ Perceptions on Contemporary Social, Economic and Political Issues in Nepal’ has been conducted by directly interviewing around 2,905 people from across the country. While selecting the respondents participating in the

survey, the number of respondents (sample) has been distributed based on the proportion of the number of households in all seven provinces. Members who have been living as members of a single household in the same house for the past 6 months and who eat meals in the same kitchen have been counted as a household. While distributing the number of households and respondents participating in the

interview, it has been distributed based on the proportion of the total number of households living in rural municipalities, municipalities and metropolitan cities. The selection of districts and municipalities for the survey has been done based on the PPS (Probability Proportion to Size) method. 

In the eager anticipation of the elections, more than 69 percent of the voters are willing to vote

116 wards from 102 municipalities in 45 districts have been selected for the survey. While selecting households, after reaching the selected ward, a chowk was randomly selected and the houses on the right side of that chowk were selected. A list of 90 households in the rural municipality, 120 households in the municipality and 150 households in the metropolitan city were prepared from the selected toles. In order to determine which of the listed households to interview, the total number of households on the list in the selected ward was divided by 25, and only 25 households within that number of households were interviewed.

A list of potential respondents has been prepared only for Nepali citizens aged 18 to 70 who have lived in the selected households for at least 6 months and who can hear, understand and respond to what the enumerator says. The ‘kiss grid’ method has been used to determine which household members to talk to. Only members selected through this method have been interviewed with prior consent for the interview. The members found at home or those met on the way have not been interviewed. Only members selected through the scientific method of research have been interviewed. 

Voters’ attraction to ‘mid-career leadership’

During the survey, 38 enumerators were mobilized in 19 groups of 2/2 people for on-site interviews from Pus 17 to Magh 17. The margin of error of the survey is +/-5 percent. The questions and answers for the interview were entered on mobile/tablets using the ‘Open Data Kit Software’. To ensure the quality of the data, GPS, on-site observation, on-site training and feedback were conducted for each household selected for the interview. In addition, about 15 percent of the interviews were re-tested, while the contribution to the counter-enumerator interviews was limited to only 2.6 percent. While selecting respondents in the provinces and municipalities, the actual proportion of the 2078 census was used, and since gender selection was also based on the proportion of the census, these variables are ‘self-weighted’. The data analysis of the

survey was done by Madhu Acharya and Bhumiraj Chapagain of Sharecast Initiative. The ‘

National Opinion Survey-2082’ was conducted in collaboration with Kantipur and Sharecast Initiative. This is how the survey was conducted

2,950 people from 45 districts, 102 municipalities, and 116 wards participated in the survey. Limitations of the survey

1. The answers given by the respondent during the interview are recorded as the final answer.

2. The answers may have been biased due to the respondent's social, economic, and political background or affiliation. No other controls were included in the survey except for the supplementary questions asked to measure the fairness of the respondent's answers.