Methodology

In total 764 adults living in Trinidad and Tobago were interviewed for Wave 16, all having agreed to become members of the new Opinion Leaders? Panel when interviewed and recruited in Wave 15 at the beginning of 2010.

A total of 879 Panel members were randomly sampled to be interviewed in Wave 16, giving a response rate of 87%.

Methodology

In total 2,987 adults living in Trinidad and Tobago were interviewed for Wave 15 and also agreed to become members of the new Opinion Leaders’ Panel.

Wave 15 constitutes a new “baseline” in the Opinion Leaders’ Panel research series and constitutes an entirely fresh panel of members. The Panel was recruited by drawing a random sample of 3,594 persons aged 18 years an over from the national population of Trinidad and Tobago. A total of 2,987 of these persons agreed to be interviewed as part of the new Panel resulting in a response rate of 83%.

Methodology

In total 712 completed interviews were achieved for the Opinion Leaders' Panel Wave 14 Survey out of a sample of 888 Panel members. The overall response rate was 80%, indicating continuing support by citizens signed up to participate in the panel.

All interviews were conducted face to face, in-home between 25th April and 10th June 2009.

Methodology

In total 689 completed interviews were achieved for the Opinion Leaders' Panel Wave 13 Survey out of a sample of 805 Panel members. The overall response rate was 86%, indicating continuing support by citizens signed up to participate in the panel.

All interviews were conducted face to face, in-home between 2nd and 21st January 2009.

Methodology

In total 704 completed interviews were achieved for the Opinion Leaders' Panel Wave 12 Survey. This was based on sampling 820 respondents from the full Panel of 2,362 members who have telephone numbers (either in their household or a cellphone). This gives an overall response rate of 86%.

All interviews were conducted by telephone between 25 and 30 September 2008.

Methodology

In total 704 completed interviews were achieved for the Opinion Leaders' Panel Wave 11 Survey. This was based on sampling 1,003 respondents from the full Panel of 2,362 members. This gives an overall response rate of 70%.

All interviews were conducted face-to-face between 23 July and 13 August 2008.

Methodology

In total 2,362 completed interviews were achieved for the Opinion Leaders' Panel Wave 10 Survey. This was based on the Panel of 2,147 members from Wave 9 and some new recruits for this Wave. The completed interviews comprised of 1,758 existing Panel members and 604 new recruits. This gives an overall response rate of 82% of the original Panel ? (1,758 out of 2,147).

All interviews were conducted face-to-face between 8 March and 22 April 2008.

Methodology

Respondents were randomly sampled from the database of Opinion Leaders' Panel. In total, 983 Panel members were successfully interviewed for Wave 9 out of a sample of 1,121 who were contacted or attempt was made for contact. The response rate was therefore 88%.

All interviews were conducted face-to-face, in home, between 16 December 2007 and 21 January 2008.

Methodology

For the first time the Opinion Leaders? Panel survey was conducted by telephone rather than face to face. The decision was taken to do this because of the high proportion of Panel members (newly recruited as part of Wave 7) who gave us their home or cell numbers: in total 83% of the full Panel members did so.

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Methodology

In total 2,540 adults living in Trinidad and Tobago were interviewed for Wave 7 and who further agreed to become members of the new Opinion Leaders’ Panel.

Wave 7 constitutes a new “baseline” in the Opinion Leaders’ Panel research series and is constituted of almost entirely fresh panel members. Since the last wave of the Panel was conducted in July-August 2005, it was decided to contact old Panel members before fieldwork for Wave 7 to ascertain how many would be willing to continue to be Panel members.

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Methodology

In the initial design of the Opinion Leaders' Panel, concern for panel 'wearout' and 'decay' suggested that after the baseline of 2,747 randomly sampled citizens were interviewed, subsequent Waves would target approximately one third of the participants on each occasion.

MORI therefore instructed HHB & Associates to select approximately 900 members of the panel as the 'universe' for each subsequent Wave. Random number selection was utilised for this exercise, and the field staff were instructed to contact these original panellists.

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Methodology

For Wave 5, it was decided to return to the original Panel members in order to conduct a "baseline" survey. However, because of panel 'decay' it was necessary to recruit some new members to the Panel who had not previously taken part in any Opinion Leaders' Panel studies.

In total, 2,426 Panel members were interviewed,which was made up of 1,538 existing and 888 new members.

The new members were selected on the basis of the required demographic characteristics to bring the overall panel in line with the population characteristics of the 2000 census. This was determined with respect to race, gender, age and location (regional corporations).

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Methodology

Results are based on 710 face-to-face interviews with members of the Opinion Leaders' Panel of Trinidad and Tobago. The data are weighted to the known population profile, using the most up-to-date census data available.

Where results do not sum to 100, this may be due to multiple responses, computer rounding or the exclusion of don't knows/not stated.

The fieldwork was conducted 17 July to 6 August 2004 by HHB and Associates under the direction of MORI International.

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Methodology

In December 2003, the third wave of the Opinion Leaders' Panel survey was conducted in Trinidad and Tobago. Wave III treated mainly with issues related to Trust, Police and Crime, Health, Education and the Board of Inland Revenue.

Since the baseline research of the Panel in 2002, more people are satisfied with key public services and, in general, feel these provide good value for money. In addition, Vision 2020 is becoming better known in the country and optimism that Trinidad and Tobago will become a developed country by the year 2020, is increasing.

Crime and fear of crime continue to be a cause for concern among the population. However, despite better-regarded public services, dissatisfaction with the Government has risen. Two areas of uneasiness are the state of the health service and the poor image of the police.

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Methodology

Results were based on 693 face-to-face interviews (out of a sample of 900 people) with members of the Opinion Leaders‘ Panel of Trinidad and Tobago. Data are weighted to reflect the profile of the population. Where results do not sum to 100, this may be due to multiple responses, computer rounding or the exclusion of don‘t knows/not stated. The fieldwork was conducted by HHB and Associates under the direction of MORI (June to July 2003).

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Methodology

Results in these findings are based on 2,747 face-to-face interviews with residents of Trinidad and Tobago. Respondents were picked from a random pre-selected sample, representing a response rate of 69 percent. Data are weighted to age and ethnicity. Where results do not sum up to 100, this may be due to multiple responses, computer rounding or the exclusion of don't knows/not stated. The fieldwork was conducted by HHB and Associates under the direction of MORI.

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