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APIA, SAMOA \u2013 09 JUNE 2022<\/strong>: A pioneering survey of popular political attitudes in the Pacific \u2013 the Pacific Attitudes Survey <\/em>(PAS) Samoa <\/em>– will be launched on Thursday 9 June 2022.<\/p>\n The PAS gauges the views of ordinary Samoan citizens on a range of questions related to democracy, economics, governance, tradition, trust in institutions, climate change, social media, and international relations.<\/p>\n The survey was conducted in Samoa from December 2020-January 2021 by the National University of Samoa (NUS), drawing on a nationally representative sample of 1319 Samoans of voting-age. The Pacific Attitudes Survey: Samoa <\/em>report represents the culmination of a three-way partnership between the Australian National University, the National University of Samoa, and Swinburne University of Technology.<\/p>\n The project was funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade\u2019s Pacific Research Program<\/em>.<\/p>\n While large-scale popular political attitudes surveys have been conducted globally for several decades, the Pacific region has remained a notable exception, until now.<\/p>\n Drawing upon core modules of the popular Global Barometer Survey (GBS) to allow for international comparability, the PAS also adds a host of new questions of specific relevance pertinent to Pacific contexts.<\/p>\n Findings from the PAS provide an important frame of reference for key issues in Pacific politics; including how ordinary citizens engage with and trust their political institutions, their broader understandings of democracy and tradition, and attitudes to key issues like climate change.<\/p>\n NUS Professor Ioana Chan Mow praises the partnership. \u201cThe strength of the findings in the Pacific Attitudes Survey report underlines a genuinely collaborative and rewarding three-way partnership between ANU, SUT and NUS.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Professor Michael Leach, the survey bridges the gap in the lack of available data. \u201cThe Pacific Attitudes Survey: Samoa gives voice to ordinary Samoan citizens in comparative international debates where there has previously been a lack of popular attitudinal data.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" APIA, SAMOA \u2013 09 JUNE 2022: A pioneering survey of popular political attitudes in the Pacific \u2013 the Pacific Attitudes Survey (PAS) Samoa – will be launched on Thursday 9 June 2022. The PAS gauges the views of ordinary Samoan citizens on a range of questions related to democracy, economics, governance, tradition, trust in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[177,5],"tags":[59,1083,1084,1085],"class_list":["post-11906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics","tag-featured","tag-pacific-attitudes-survey","tag-samoa-political-attitudes","tag-survey-launch"],"yoast_head":"\n