Open studies of Tunisian public opinion, with pre-registered methods and open data.
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DT Research
Indexes of public life in Tunisia, measured in the open.
- Studies
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- Collecting now
- 1
- Questions published before the first answer
- All
01/The studies
Police Satisfaction Index
Open the study- In development
What Does Democracy Mean to Tunisians?
The questionnaire is being designed and reviewed. Nothing is collected yet.
Open the study More indexes are planned
Each will follow the same rules: questions and formula published first, nothing stored about who answers, every number shown with the count behind it.
Participation is open and self-selected. Results describe the people who took part, not Tunisians as a population.
02/What DT Research is
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The rules come first
Every study publishes its questions, and every index its formula, before the first answer. A fingerprint of the questionnaire is recorded, so nothing can be changed quietly afterwards.
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Nothing about who you are
No name, no account and no IP address is stored with an answer. Each response gets a random receipt, and only the person who answered knows which answer it belongs to.
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Counted in the open
The rules that set a response aside are published in advance, and how many responses each rule removed is shown beside the results.
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Honest about who answered
Anyone can take part, so results describe the people who answered, never Tunisians as a whole. Every number carries how many people it rests on.
03/How a study moves
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Design
Questions drafted, translated and reviewed, in the open.
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Freeze
The questionnaire is fixed and fingerprinted. Any later change is a new version.
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Collection
Answers come in. A live index publishes as it goes.
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Results
Figures computed by published code, with their limits beside them.
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Open data
Anonymised data released for anyone to check.
04/The programme
DT Research is a program of open, pre-registered studies about Tunisia and the people who live in it. Each study publishes its questionnaire, its method, its data and its analysis, and states the limits of its sample on the same page as its results. Nothing here is a poll claiming to speak for the country. It is a record of what the people who took part said, in a form anyone can check.
The Police Satisfaction Index asks, every month, how people experience the police: whether they trust them, whether they feel watched and unfree around them, and what happened when they met them. It is published as a monthly series, so a change shows as a change.
Another study asks what democracy means to Tunisians. If a country is going to be built, the words used to describe what we want should be examined first. Tunisians argue about democracy constantly, but the word does not carry one meaning: for some it is elections, for others courts that can check power, a press that can publish, schools and clinics that work, or order and a leader who gets things done. A survey that reports support for democracy has measured agreement on a word, not on a programme. This program exists to make that difference visible.