Wave XVI Research Findings

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%.

A booster of respondents was interviewed in Tobago to allow for greater comparison of results between people living in Tobago and those in Trinidad. For this Wave, 97 persons living in Tobago were interviewed with the final results being weighted to ensure the overall results are representative of all adults in Trinidad and Tobago.

All interviews were conducted face to face and in-home between 20th June and 25th July 2010.

The data has been weighted by age, ethnicity, gender and Regional Corporation to the 2000 census data. Weighting for work status was derived from an analysis of the most recent labour force survey data.

Prior to the quantitative survey reported in this document, a series of focus groups were recruited and moderated by Caribbean Market Research under the direction of MORI Caribbean. Six focus groups were conducted in Trinidad in April 2010, focusing specifically on people?s attitudes to their local area and the proposed local government reforms to help inform the activities of the Ministry of Local Government.

In May 2010, two additional focus groups were conducted immediately after the General Election of 24th May to provide the new Government with initial reactions and expectations following the outcome of the election. In June 2010, two more focus groups were conducted in Tobago to consider issues relevant to this island. All three sets of focus groups have been reported on separately and are included in the appendices of the report.