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At the time when OSCE and UNMIK were
implementing civil registration in Kosova, exactly on the
day when the number of registered Kosovars had been reported
to add up to five hundred thousand, it was the fifth day
of the field work of a survey, which had been conducted
by Index Kosova, research company, joint venture with BBSS
Gallup International. Bearing in mind that as much else
there has not been any official census or other kind of
registration of Kosovar Albanians since 1981 (civil registration
in 1991 has been boycotted by Kosovar Albanians), Index
Kosova ventured to raise the issue in its regular poll,
asking questions how well informed about the registration
people consider themselves to be, of what importance the
general public perceives the process to be for the resolve
of the Kosova problem, measuring up whether have persons
already registered themselves and if not, are they about
to go and register during the time allotted for the process,
and whether the message about the registration as a peremptory
condition to be able to take part in a possible forthcoming
voting has been delivered and reached through to the mass
public.
Question posed to measure the general
awareness of Kosovar Albanians about the civil registration
ran as this: Registration of Kosova inhabitants is currently
going on. Do you think that you are well informed, fairly
informed, not quite informed or not informed at all about
the process so that you can go about registering yourself?
Obtained results show that the majority
of interviewed persons are well aware about the process
(81.7%), while 13.6% declare to be fairly informed, fraction
of the interviewees admit to be not quite informed (3.2%)
and only 1.0% of the respondents to no quite heard of it.
It is well known that the future of
the political system and set-up of Kosova is one of the
most important issues which Kosova inhabitants are preoccupied
with and there is an interdependence between level of information
and level of evaluation of the importance regarding some
particular problem.
Second question, which has taken on
the lead (Is the registration of Kosova inhabitants, in
your opinion, very important, somewhat important or not
important at all for the future political organisation of
Kosova?), reveals that 93.0% of the respondents ascertain
and estimate registration as essentially important for the
political system and set-up of Kosova, and only 4.6% perceive
it as insignificant, the rest refuse or do not know.
In the question: And did yourself register
by know?, 67.8% of the respondents answer with Yes and 32.1%
answer with NO.
In the question designed only for persons
who have not been registered yet - Are you going to register
within the announced time?- the absolute majority of the
respondents answer positively and only 6 records feature
answer NO.
The following question directed to all
respondents was: Would those, who have not registered, be
able to vote in the elections to be held in Kosova in the
future?
Results in this question are: 10.2 answer with Yes and 74.6%
answer with NO, 14.4% do not know.
When checking the overall results against some characteristics
of the demographics (type of residence, gender, level of
education), it could be argued that the received general
opinions are rather good and evenly spread through all layers
of Kosovar Albanians.
However, out of 10 respondents to declare that are totally
uninformed about registration in, 7 reside in rural areas.
According to the crossings, women are less informed about
the registration than men.
The survey shows that the process of
civil registration is slower in villages than in towns.
From respondents that are not yet registered 69.5% are from
rural areas and 30.5 % from urban ones.
The sample of the survey comprised 1000
Kosovar Albanians aged 18+ years, selected on random stratified
principles all across Kosova.
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