Iranian Public Opinion during the COVID-19 Pandemic

University of Maryland CISSM has published its most recent study based on one wave of nationally representative survey that was conducted by IranPoll for the University of Maryland. University of Maryland CISSM was responsible for designing the questionnaires, getting feedback on them from relevant policy experts and practitioners, performing the analysis, and putting together the final report.

IranPoll partially sponsored the collection of these surveys through “IranPoll Opinion Research Support Fund in Memory of Professor Thomas Schelling”.

The survey covers few issues including COVID-19 pandemic and current political and economic state of affairs in Iran. Telephone interviews of 1,004 Iranians were conducted from September 1 till October 2, 2020 using IranPoll’s standard nationally representative probabilistic sampling as detailed here.

MAIN FINDINGS:

The frequency table of survey results is available here.