Survey question from The 2022 Arab Opinion Index
Category: GOVERNANCE & POLITICAL SYSTEMS — State performance
Question: When the government decides on appointments of senior officials, in your view what is the second most important factor it uses to make its decision? 1: Ability/Qualification, 2: Having influential relatives or acquaintances, 3: Loyalty to the government, 4: Tribal or familial affiliation, 5: Confessional or Sectarian affiliation, 6: Political tendency (party affiliation), 7: Ethnic or national affiliation, 8: Regional or provincial connection/affiliation, 9: Employment grade level and/or rank, 10: Other, 11: Social level, 12: Loyalty to the head of state, 13: Religiosity
Response scale: 1 to 13
Responses by country (mean, answer distribution):
Egypt: (3.00, {'11.0': '6.51%', '4.0': '3.65%', '6.0': '12.76%', '9.0': '16.54%', '3.0': '16.67%', '13.0': '7.94%', '1.0': '12.24%', '8.0': '3.52%', '12.0': '12.63%', '7.0': '1.56%', '2.0': '5.99%'})
Iraq: (9.00, {'6.0': '6.87%', '5.0': '2.98%', '9.0': '22.15%', '7.0': '2.72%', '4.0': '6.74%', '8.0': '3.11%', '2.0': '4.40%', '3.0': '20.60%', '13.0': '5.70%', '11.0': '7.25%', '1.0': '17.49%'})
Jordan: (3.00, {'9.0': '16.64%', '13.0': '14.33%', '6.0': '2.75%', '11.0': '4.78%', '3.0': '19.39%', '1.0': '16.06%', '4.0': '13.75%', '2.0': '5.93%', '7.0': '3.18%', '8.0': '3.18%'})
Lebanon: (3.00, {'6.0': '13.80%', '3.0': '29.09%', '2.0': '6.36%', '10.0': '1.49%', '9.0': '7.44%', '13.0': '2.98%', '7.0': '2.44%', '1.0': '9.74%', '11.0': '8.80%', '8.0': '3.52%', '5.0': '14.34%'})
Libya: (3.00, {'3.0': '31.68%', '2.0': '10.78%', '6.0': '9.91%', '11.0': '3.88%', '9.0': '11.42%', '7.0': '4.31%', '1.0': '12.28%', '13.0': '9.48%', '4.0': '4.96%', '8.0': '1.29%'})
Morocco: (1.00, {'11.0': '11.66%', '9.0': '15.37%', '3.0': '9.36%', '6.0': '10.78%', '8.0': '7.77%', '4.0': '7.24%', '1.0': '16.61%', '2.0': '11.31%', '10.0': '0.53%', '13.0': '4.77%', '7.0': '4.59%'})
Tunisia: (9.00, {'9.0': '22.39%', '6.0': '8.30%', '11.0': '12.36%', '1.0': '12.16%', '8.0': '4.25%', '3.0': '16.41%', '12.0': '12.16%', '13.0': '5.98%', '2.0': '5.98%'})
Algeria: (9.00, {'9.0': '29.86%', '6.0': '16.16%', '2.0': '5.75%', '3.0': '14.25%', '12.0': '8.77%', '1.0': '14.25%', '11.0': '1.92%', '4.0': '4.11%', '13.0': '0.27%', '8.0': '4.11%', '7.0': '0.55%'})
Saudi Arabia: (9.00, {'1.0': '19.69%', '3.0': '18.15%', '10.0': '5.41%', '9.0': '23.17%', '2.0': '16.60%', '13.0': '5.02%', '8.0': '0.39%', '4.0': '3.47%', '11.0': '5.41%', '6.0': '2.32%', '7.0': '0.39%'})
Sudan: (9.00, {'9.0': '25.07%', '1.0': '10.12%', '3.0': '23.02%', '13.0': '9.82%', '2.0': '8.36%', '4.0': '3.81%', '5.0': '1.76%', '7.0': '2.20%', '6.0': '5.87%', '11.0': '5.72%', '10.0': '2.20%', '8.0': '2.05%'})
Palestine: (13.00, {'4.0': '2.57%', '6.0': '9.47%', '2.0': '5.68%', '13.0': '19.49%', '1.0': '16.37%', '3.0': '17.59%', '9.0': '14.48%', '11.0': '5.41%', '10.0': '4.06%', '7.0': '3.25%', '8.0': '1.62%'})
Kuwait: (3.00, {'1.0': '15.16%', '3.0': '24.02%', '5.0': '4.09%', '2.0': '12.44%', '6.0': '10.05%', '9.0': '16.35%', '7.0': '2.04%', '11.0': '3.75%', '13.0': '4.43%', '8.0': '2.73%', '4.0': '4.94%'})
Mauritania: (3.00, {'9.0': '12.32%', '13.0': '11.65%', '3.0': '18.07%', '1.0': '14.19%', '2.0': '8.03%', '8.0': '2.54%', '7.0': '2.28%', '6.0': '11.78%', '11.0': '5.22%', '4.0': '10.04%', '12.0': '3.88%'})
Qatar: (9.00, {'8.0': '1.74%', '13.0': '11.34%', '1.0': '7.56%', '9.0': '41.86%', '3.0': '16.86%', '4.0': '5.52%', '11.0': '6.10%', '2.0': '2.03%', '6.0': '3.49%', '10.0': '1.45%', '7.0': '1.16%', '5.0': '0.87%'})