AFGHANISTAN FLASH SURVEYS ON

The General Directorate for the Office of the Minister of Interior provided valuable assistance in securing permission to conduct fieldwork, while the Afghan National Statistics and Information Authority (formerly the Central Statistics Organization) provided population estimates used for the formulation of survey weights. [...] The advantage of interviewing the same individuals across a longer period of time is that it allows researchers to look at changes in perceptions at the individual level, rather than the aggregate level (as with the Survey of the Afghan People). [...] Do you think peace is achievable in Afghanistan in the next two years? (Percent who say yes.) 26 FLASH SURVEY 2021 By region, respondents in the East (64.9%) are the most likely to report that they believe peace is achievable in the next two years, while this is lowest by some distance in the Central/Kabul region (35.6%). [...] Speaking to the Afghan National Police (ANP), W3 finds increasingly positive public perceptions of the ANP, with increases in the percentage of Afghans noting the ANP as honest and fair, those who believe that the ANP helps improve security, those who believe that the ANP is efficient at arresting those who have committed crimes, and in the number of Afghans who say they would contact the ANP if t. [...] While figures across the three waves of the Survey for the percentage of those impacted by crime have remained broadly consistent, a minor decrease in the overall in the total is observed in W3.