Recently, the demand on civil society studies in the Arab World and in particular on surveying has noticeably increased. This is due to the fact that the Middle East has been witnessing many changes in the past few years due to the so called “Arab Spring” where people’s opinion plays a critical role in the decision making process. This has created the need for independent organizations and governmental agencies to conduct high quality and well designed surveys to measure public opinion. A salient feature of such surveys is data verification to ensure correctness and consistency of the obtained data. In this project, we developed a new tool for handling data verification, specifically for quantitative surveys (surveys that have results based on numerical analysis and statistics). The tool is developed using Visual Basic for Applications and can be installed as an add-on for Microsoft Office. Furthermore, we present a case study using real data obtained from an opinion research organization to verify the functional efficiency of this tool.
Done By: Arwa Daghir