NLD Tracks Public Opinion on Uruzgan Msn

[The Bread Guy]

Seems the Dutch government posts stats every month re:  latest opinion polls on the mission.
http://www.defensie.nl/missies/afghanistan/uruzgan/mon_opinie_uruzgan.aspx

Anyone read enough Dutch to make out what's showing?  Trends?

 

[Blackadder1916]

This is a machine translation of the summary for the July 2008 survey.

Summary
During the month of July 2008 there is in the context of the continuous monitor 'Aid and Acceptance: Public opinion Mission Uruzgan 'another measurement. The measurement has in the first week of July. In total, in this sample 177 respondents participated. Here, the following results to be
Linked:

Of all Dutch gives 55% to be familiar with the Mission in Uruzgan and 46% indicates interest in order to carry out this mission. 33% Indicates (strong) supporter of the mission and 32% (strong) opponent. Furthermore, 34% no front or to his opponent.

From the Dutch population feels 42% is actually involved in the military in Uruzgan and 58% indicates proud to these soldiers. 38% think that the mission will contribute to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and only 9% think the mission the threat of terrorist attacks in the Netherlands will make itself smaller.

Of the Dutch population, 41% are confident that the Dutch soldiers will stand up against his battles with Taliban and 39% consider the risks that the Dutch soldiers are justified. Finally, 26% noted when Dutch soldiers slain, a reason for them this would be the Dutch to call back troops from Afghanistan.

 

[Eggy]

Seems the Dutch government posts stats every month re:  latest opinion polls on the mission.
http://www.defensie.nl/missies/afghanistan/uruzgan/mon_opinie_uruzgan.aspx

Anyone read enough Dutch to make out what's showing?  Trends?

A total of 177 persons take part in this poll, 86 males and 91 females. 73 of them are between 16-30 years age and 104 are over 30 years of age.

Trends are that every month in which a lot of casualties (either wounded or killed) are reported the polls show the support going down, when it's a relatively quiet month support rates climb. Since the start of the operation in August '06 the difference between the number of supporters and opponents has become smaller. Overall the support is in decline but only by a few points.

Some interesting differences can be seen between male and female, young and old. It shows males are in general better informed about the mission but females feel more connected to the soldiers. Males are also more supportive of the deployment than females. Younger participants are prouder and more confident that the soldiers are capable of defeating the taliban than the older participants.

The questions usually have five possible answers from strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree to strongly disagree. It's a shame they offer neutral as a choice because a lot of the participants use this escape choice.