Afghanistan Where Things Stand

This is an in-depth analysis of the results of the ABC News' fifth national public opinion poll in Afghanistan, conducted Dec. 11-23, 2009, via face-to-face interviews with a random national sample of 1,534 Afghan adults in all 34 of the country's provinces. The survey found a remarkable rebound in optimism among Afghans in hopes for their country’s future and in support for President Hamid Karzai, albeit with deep challenges remaining, including continued broadly negative views of the performance of U.S. and NATO forces. The highly detailed survey was co-sponsored by the BBC and ARD German Television, with field work by the Afghan Center for Socio-Economic and Opinion Research (ACSOR) in Kabul, a division of D3 Systems Inc. in Vienna, Va. This report was presented at a CSIS event.

The full report can be downloaded here:

http://csis.org/files/publication/100312_CSIS_langer_presentation.pdf