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 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: (1.00, {'3.0': '18.05%', '1.0': '51.63%', '2.0': '9.40%', '6.0': '7.39%', '11.0': '1.88%', '9.0': '1.75%', '4.0': '2.88%', '13.0': '2.26%', '12.0': '2.88%', '7.0': '0.63%', '8.0': '1.25%'})
Iraq: (1.00, {'5.0': '2.00%', '8.0': '2.38%', '6.0': '3.50%', '13.0': '3.75%', '9.0': '5.62%', '7.0': '0.75%', '2.0': '8.25%', '3.0': '13.25%', '1.0': '53.00%', '11.0': '4.38%', '4.0': '2.88%', '10.0': '0.25%'})
Jordan: (1.00, {'1.0': '58.14%', '2.0': '15.01%', '9.0': '3.18%', '11.0': '1.27%', '13.0': '7.12%', '4.0': '6.11%', '3.0': '6.62%', '6.0': '1.53%', '7.0': '0.51%', '8.0': '0.51%'})
Lebanon: (1.00, {'2.0': '8.69%', '6.0': '9.57%', '1.0': '52.39%', '3.0': '13.35%', '11.0': '2.64%', '10.0': '1.01%', '7.0': '0.88%', '9.0': '0.88%', '5.0': '9.32%', '8.0': '0.76%', '13.0': '0.50%'})
Libya: (1.00, {'1.0': '64.33%', '4.0': '1.85%', '3.0': '15.34%', '7.0': '1.11%', '6.0': '1.48%', '11.0': '2.03%', '13.0': '3.70%', '8.0': '0.55%', '2.0': '7.39%', '9.0': '2.22%'})
Morocco: (1.00, {'8.0': '6.30%', '1.0': '33.51%', '6.0': '11.80%', '9.0': '9.25%', '4.0': '6.03%', '11.0': '6.70%', '3.0': '8.58%', '2.0': '10.19%', '7.0': '4.02%', '13.0': '3.62%'})
Tunisia: (1.00, {'1.0': '68.53%', '12.0': '9.56%', '2.0': '7.30%', '6.0': '2.26%', '9.0': '2.52%', '3.0': '4.25%', '11.0': '2.52%', '13.0': '2.12%', '8.0': '0.93%'})
Algeria: (1.00, {'1.0': '43.91%', '3.0': '10.18%', '9.0': '21.36%', '6.0': '8.98%', '8.0': '1.60%', '2.0': '9.18%', '4.0': '2.40%', '7.0': '0.60%', '12.0': '1.60%', '13.0': '0.20%'})
Saudi Arabia: (1.00, {'3.0': '12.59%', '1.0': '71.97%', '13.0': '2.14%', '10.0': '2.61%', '9.0': '3.33%', '6.0': '0.48%', '2.0': '3.80%', '11.0': '1.43%', '8.0': '0.48%', '4.0': '1.19%'})
Sudan: (1.00, {'1.0': '52.37%', '3.0': '23.03%', '7.0': '1.18%', '2.0': '12.63%', '9.0': '2.37%', '4.0': '1.45%', '5.0': '1.18%', '13.0': '2.11%', '11.0': '1.58%', '6.0': '1.58%', '10.0': '0.13%', '8.0': '0.39%'})
Palestine: (1.00, {'2.0': '6.92%', '1.0': '68.18%', '10.0': '1.64%', '8.0': '0.38%', '9.0': '2.26%', '6.0': '3.65%', '3.0': '7.92%', '4.0': '0.63%', '13.0': '7.55%', '7.0': '0.38%', '11.0': '0.50%'})
Kuwait: (1.00, {'11.0': '1.84%', '1.0': '58.79%', '3.0': '13.90%', '2.0': '15.58%', '4.0': '3.85%', '5.0': '1.51%', '6.0': '1.17%', '13.0': '0.50%', '9.0': '2.18%', '7.0': '0.50%', '8.0': '0.17%'})
Mauritania: (1.00, {'1.0': '49.94%', '9.0': '2.77%', '13.0': '10.44%', '3.0': '10.57%', '4.0': '3.40%', '2.0': '12.08%', '6.0': '4.15%', '11.0': '3.14%', '12.0': '1.76%', '8.0': '1.01%', '7.0': '0.75%'})
Qatar: (1.00, {'1.0': '86.77%', '13.0': '1.78%', '9.0': '2.54%', '3.0': '5.09%', '11.0': '0.51%', '4.0': '1.02%', '6.0': '0.25%', '2.0': '1.78%', '8.0': '0.25%'})