A survey conducted recently revealed that 43 percent urbanites believe that corruption will increase in the country in the next three years. "Gallup Pakistan recently conducted a nation-wide survey on 'corruption' whereby the perception of respondents on 'corruption as abuse of entrusted power' was evaluated.
"The question posed to the respondents was 'Do you expect the level of corruption to change in the next 3 years ?," said a media release of Gallup Pakistan. The results of this survey revealed that 43 percent of the urbanites believe that there will be a sharp increase in the level of 'corruption' in the country, 15 percent believe that it will increase a little whereas 23 percent believe that it will remain the same.
On the contrary only 5 percent of the respondents claimed that there will be sharp decline in the corruption level while 3 percent of the individuals said that they expected it to decrease slightly in the next 3 years. Remaining 11 percent of the respondents either gave no response or claimed that they did not know about this issue.
Furthermore respondents were asked about the extent to which they perceived various institutions and sectors to be affected by corruption. The sectors which were rated as the 'extremely corrupt' were 'police' which was rated in the most corrupt category by almost 59 percent of the respondents, 46 percent claimed that Tax Revenue collecting bodies are extremely corrupt followed by Registry and Permit services (civil registry for birth, marriage, licenses, permits etc) which were rated in the most corrupt category by 42 percent of the respondents.
The 41 percent of the respondents ranked the political parties in the 'extremely corrupt' category, 37 percent rated the utility providing departments (telephone, electricity, water) as 'extremely corrupt', 35 percent ranked Judiciary/Legal System and 35 percent ranked the 'Parliament and Legislatures' in the extremely corrupt category.
The list consisted of other institutions and sectors like education system, NGO's, medical services and religious bodies. Interestingly, the lowest number of respondents, 22 percent perceived the 'religious bodies' as 'extremely corrupt'.
This survey by Gallup Pakistan, an affiliate of Gallup International, was conducted on a sample of over 1400 nation-wide respondents across all four provinces of Pakistan. This sample was statistically selected across all ages, income groups and educational levels. The error margin for a sample of this kind is estimated to be +5 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.
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