From 26 November to 12 December, 2012, the Afrobarometer surveyed a nationally representative, random, stratified probability sample of 1200 adult Burundians. Face-to-face interviews were conducted in the language of the respondent’s choice by the Afrobarometer team based at GRADIS. Local language translations were done in one languages: Kirundi. IDS provided technical backstopping for the survey. This was the first Afrobarometer survey conducted in Burundi.
The sample was drawn by taking the smallest geographic units, Census Enumeration Areas (EAs), and stratifying all EAs across the country into separate lists according to provinces and geographical area (urban/rural). 150 EAs were then randomly selected from these lists with the probability proportionate to its size in the overall population as represented in the 2012 projections of the total population, based on the 2008 census, provided by the national institute of statistics, Institut des Statistiques et Etudes Economiques du Burundi (ISTEEBU). This ensured that every eligible adult had an equal and known chance of being selected. Eight households were then randomly selected within each EA, and a respondent 18 years of age or older was randomly selected from each household. A gender quota ensured that every other interview must be with a female. A sample of this size is sufficient to yield an overall margin of error of +/-3 percent at a confidence level of 95 percent.
