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Some of the problems of Kosova infrastructure
have been obvious well before the war, even though its recent
development has made one or two more conspicuous, occupying
top of mind perception of the general public. Here also short-term
expediency and mass expectations affect to a large extent
people's general concerns when assessing in general their
everyday environment. INDEX KOSOVA, joint venture with BBSS
Gallup International posed a question in a survey conducted
in March 2000, representative for the Albanian citizens, designed
to gauge the common opinion on which problems of infrastructure
of Kosova should have a priority.
The question asked in this case was: Which
ONE of the following problems of infrastructure of Kosova
do you think should be attended FIRST? And, responses offered
to this question were as follows:
1. Road reconstruction
2. The lack of planning and "wild" building
3. Destroyed telephone network
4. Irregular transport system
5. Normalisation of power supply
6. Reconstruction of public buildings
7. Other (specify)
8. Refusal/Don't know
Same question was repeated again
so to give an opportunity for a second option in so enlisted
problems: And which problem of infrastructure do you think
should be attended NEXT?
Respondents' answers to these two questions
were mainly focused on two problems. The data show that 38.7%
of respondents think that road reconstruction should be attended
first, and 35.7% think that this problem should be addressed
as the next problem. 34.3% of respondents think that normalisation
of power supply should be attended first, while 33.4% think
that this should be attended as the next problem.11.7% of
respondents think that reconstruction of public buildings
should be attended first, while 13.2% think that it should
be attended as the next problem. 8.6% of respondents think
that the lack of planning and "wild" building should
be attended first and 4.8% think that this issue should be
attended as the next problem. For the problem of destroyed
telephone network, respectively irregular transport system
1.5%, respectively 1.6% of respondents think that they should
be attended first, while 4.3%, respectively 4.6% think that
these problems should be attended as the next problem. 2.8%
of respondents answer with other in the first question and
0.8% refuse to give an answer or don't know. In the second
question 2.9% of respondents answer with other and 1.1% refuse
to give an answer or don't know.
As seen from data of INDEX KOSOVA, Kosovar
citizens' opinion of the problems of current infrastructure
is that road reconstruction and normalisation of power supply
are the pair of issues which should be treated with highest
priority.
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