MINSK, 9 October (BelTA) - The Institute for Comparative Social Studies Eurasian Barometer will hold an exit poll during Belarus’ president election on 11 October on request of the ONT TV channel, Director of the institute Christian Haerpfer told media at a master-class for students of the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies of the Belarusian State University on 9 October, BelTA informs.
“A total of 909 interviewers will work at 303 polling sites. Three pollsters at each polling station will interview 10,000 voters. We will work in every district of Belarus and poll every category of the population,” said Christian Haerpfer.
According to the Director of the institute, among interviewers will be Belarusian students. “We have created a network of experienced professors and academicians who have been trained in our institute. They were engaged in training Belarusian students,” he said.
The Institute for Comparative Social Studies Eurasian Barometer is an international non-for-profit NGO headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
The Eurasian Barometer represents a network of research organizations and individual researchers in more than 25 countries. The institute monitors the public opinion on political, social and economic transformations in the countries of the post-communist Europe and the post-Soviet Eurasia. The company’s geographic coverage comprises countries of Eastern Europe (Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria), the Balkans (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan).