The International Republic Institute ha publicado los resultados de la encuesta realizada 584 personas residentes en la isla en las 14 provincias con la sola excepcion del municipio especial Isla de la Juventud.
IRI Survey Shows Majority of Cubans Want to Vote for Castro’s ReplacementMajority of Cubans Believe Political and Economic Changes Would Benefit Them
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOctober 19, 2007
Vilnius, Lithuania – A survey conducted in Cuba for the International Republican Institute (IRI) indicates that nearly three-quarters of Cubans surveyed (73.9%) would like “to vote to decide who succeeds Fidel Castro” as President. The survey of 584 Cubans was conducted from September 5-October 4, 2007.
Other critical findings in the survey are:
Just a quarter of Cubans (25.2%) believe things are going “very well” or “well” in the country while nearly 40 percent think things are going “badly” or “very badly.” The remaining third (33.7%) say the country’s situation is neither good nor bad.
Nearly 43 percent of Cubans surveyed say “low-salaries and the high cost of living” are the country’s biggest problem; another 18.2 percent cited “lack of freedoms” or “the political system” while 11.6 percent cited “scarcity of food” and nearly five percent (4.8%) cited the “embargo” as the biggest problems facing the country.
A majority of Cubans (75.6%) think that political democratic changes in their country would improve their daily lives. Only 14.2 percent believe that democratic changes would make their lives “worse.”
An overwhelming 83 percent of Cubans believe that transformations toward a market-based economy would “improve their lives,” while only 9.6 percent believe that free-market changes would make their lives “worse.”
When asked specifically how changes to a market economy would improve their lives, 13 percent said “purchasing power would increase” and a similar number cited that “salaries would improve” (12.8%).
When asked if they would prefer the current political system to one where people could choose from candidates of different parties, 76.3 percent said they would like to chose compared to 23.7 percent who wanted to keep the current system.
The study also revealed a very strong correlation between age and education and the degree to which Cubans support democratic and economic changes. The younger or more educated the interviewee, the more he or she supported political and economic changes, multi-party elections and the right to vote to decide who should succeed Fidel Castro.
Face-to-face interviews were completed between September 5 and October 4, 2007. The surveyors randomly interviewed, according to province, age and gender, a total of 584 Cuban adults. The survey has a margin of error of +/- four percent, and a 95 percent level of confidence. The survey was conducted in 14 out of the 15 Cuban provinces.
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Enlance a los resultados de la encuesta: http://www.iri.org/lac/cuba/pdfs/2007-10-18-cuba.pdf
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