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People's Development Agenda and Government's Policy Performance
Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI)
February, 2006

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Food insecurity is by far the most troublesome problem for Zimbabweans and has inbetween Rounds 2 (in mid-2004) and 3 (late 2005) of the Afrobarometer surveys, dethroned economic management as the number one problem. Three in ten (31%) adult Zimbabweans feel that the most important problem they are facing is food shortages. These are part of the findings of the latest Afrobarometer survey.

The survey was conducted from 9 to 26 October 2005 and covered both urban and rural segments of all ten administrative provinces in Zimbabwe. It was based on a double sample: a nationally representative random main sample of 1096 respondents and a purposeful sub-sample of 104 respondents comprising victims of the Government's Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order. In both cases, respondents were Zimbabwean men and women of voting age. Because of disruptions of field work by some unruly political elements, completion of the survey was aborted and in the end 1048 interviews of the main sample and 64 of the sub-sample were completed totalling 1112 interviews. All fieldwork was done by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI), a Zimbabwean non-governmental research organisation.

Every citizenry has its problems, aspirations, and frustrations. Governments are there to try to solve or at least mitigate people's problems and satisfy their aspirations. A perennial question in the three Afrobarometer surveys conducted so far is: "In your opinion, what are the most important problems facing this country that government should address?" Respondents were asked to give up to three answers and in Figure 1 below, the first responses given are graphically presented.

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