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PUBLIC OPINION

Field research

The research into public opinion on various social issues has been maintained for the last forty years, while research into public opinion on security has been carried out for the last twenty years. The first opinion on Slovenia's national security goes back to the period when Slovenia was gaining back its independence, between 1990 and 1991. The Defence Studies Research Centre repeated the poll at the end of 1994 and the beginning of 1995 and, for the first time, factors relating to Slovenia's potential membership of NATO were included. Research of this type continued in 1999 when researchers, under the project entitled Security Integration in Europe, devoted even more space to European security and defence integration processes. The in-depth public opinion poll entitled "National and International Security" was carried out by the Defence Studies Research Centre, which is a part of the Social Studies Institute at the University of Ljubljana. The opinion poll was carried out in November 2001 and the results were presented in February 2002.

The theoretical aspect of the poll was devised then broken down and organised into a questionnaire by a research group at the Defence Studies Research Centre, in line with international standards for this area and taking into account Slovenia's specific security characteristics. In particular, the AAPOR (American Association for Public Opinion Research) standards were taken into account, as well as the experience gained through participation in international associations of researchers in projects such as ERGOMAS (European Research Group on Military and Society), ISA (International Sociological Association), Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution, and COST (Co- operation in Science and Technology) within the EU. The field phase of the project was in both cases conducted by the Public Opinion and Mass Media Research Centre, which is also a part of the Social Studies Institute.


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