Data Set
47
Omnibus Surveys: Internet and Social Media Use for Information about (Inter)National News and Politics in Kazakhstan
Version 1.0, published: Sept. 13, 2025.
Description
I commissioned four questions using omnibus surveys conducted by Central Asia Barometer using funding from the ‘Bolashaq’ programme during my PhD programme in Cambridge. Central Asia Barometer used simple random sampling of mobile phone numbers to obtain a national representative sample. All telephone surveys were completed by 26 interviewers via desktop CATI applications from either in-office or in-home stations between 8 October 2020 and 23 November 2020. The omnibus surveys included questions about the respondents’ media usage, the political and economic situation in Kazakhstan, news consumption, public health, and attitudes towards the government in addition to questions capturing demographic information such as age, gender, marital and employment statuses, and education level. The average telephone survey length was 24 minutes, ranging from 12 minutes to 81 minutes. Employing simple random sampling with p=0.5 at the 95% CI level and the resulting sample sizes of 2,000 in Kazakhstan, the margin of error was calculated to be 2.19%. Incorporating the mean design effects into these estimates yields the margin of error at 2.63%.
This dataset contains the original Omnibus survey data in .xlsx format available in English. The survey methodology and questionnaire in English is provided in the Data Documentation section (PDF file).
Countries
Keywords
Social Media Internet National News International News Kazakhstani Politics
Language of data
Disciplines
Area Studies Media Studies Political Sociology