Asia Foundation Conducts a Poll: Afghan's Say Things are Improving

"A recent poll reveals that many Afghans actually believe things are getting better — slowly, to be sure, but improving despite the odds. The survey was directed by the Asia Foundation in Kabul. It was the sixth public opinion poll conducted by the foundation since 2004, providing a snapshot of public opinion in Afghanistan over time. The 634 trained Afghan pollsters interviewed 6,500 Afghans, almost equally divided between men and women and including all ethnic groups, across the country’s 34 provinces. When instability or the presence of fighting placed areas off limits, sampling replacements were made in the same region. The polling was done two months before the September parliamentary elections."

Read the rest of the article in "The Afghan View", The New York Times, November 18, 2010.