Great care vital in opinion polls in our emerging democracy

Public opinion polling has become an essential tool in public policy decision-making, election campaigns, and media reporting. Among others, politicians and policy makers want to know citizens’ satisfaction with service delivery, their perceived national priorities, their political preferences and their attitudes on the state of the economy.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Aug

MY TAKE ON THIS : Well educated voters vital for reinforcing democracy

As part of the election process we were told that there are institutions which will be certified to conduct civic education ahead of the campaigns for the General election which will start on August 22.

 

9 years ago

Daily News

13 Sep

Do we really need opinion polls at this stage?

Do we really need opinion polls at this stage?
Daily News
AS the country inches to the general election on October 25, this year, some groups have started coming up with results of opinion polls, showing who is going to win the elections. So far, three groups have come out to declare which party might win the ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Feb

Discipline vital in medical care

>Much debate on how to make Tanzanian hospitals more efficient  has always centred on increasing  the number of health workers and medical supplies but that doesn’t have to be the case, at least according to results of a programme supported by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

26 Dec

Care, vigilance vital during festive season

Care, vigilance vital during festive season
IPPmedia
The festive season has just set in, yet again, and it is everybody's wish and prayer that it will be without event and all of us will usher in the New Year in one piece. Whatever we do or plan to do during the period, we must what most we can to uphold the spirit ...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

30 Jul

Defeated candidates complain over graft in opinion polls

Defeated candidates complain over graft in opinion polls
Daily News
SOME CCM women contestants for Special Seats in Rukwa Region have charged that opinion polls were marred by acts of corruption. Last week, the Rukwa Region Chama Cha Mapinduzi women wing held preferential polls for parliamentary aspirants for ...

 

5 years ago

The Guardian

04 Apr

Coronavirus crisis is 'stopping vital cancer care' in England

Coronavirus crisis is 'stopping vital cancer care' in England  The Guardian

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Oct

STRATAGEM: Tanzanian election opinion polls a political Trojan horse

For lack of the requisite wherewithal with which to ‘visit’ my usual watering hole somewhere in Kinondoni Municipality, I instead found myself re-reading through print media reports of a handful or so ‘Opinion polls’ published recently in many local newspapers!

 

10 years ago

Daily News

17 Dec

Dons hail civic polls as true democracy test

Dons hail civic polls as true democracy test
Daily News
THE apparent stiff competition that charactered the just-ended civic elections has clearly indicated political maturity in the country and provided the right path for true multi-party democracy. In special interviews conducted by th newspaper in Dar es Salaam on ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Jan

Zambia holds polls amid great anxiety

After months of succession battles   that threatened to derail a peaceful transition, Zambians yesterday finally went to the polls to decide on their country’s next leader.

 

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