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COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the entire world. Businesses were forced to face new challenges while the society had to adjust to a new lifestyle.
As 2020 is about to end, we were interested to learn about anxiety level of Tbilisi residents caused by the pandemic situation. Respondents were asked asses how concerned they are on 10-point scale where “0” means “I am not concerned at all” while “10” means – “I am very concerned”.
As of 11-13 December of 2020, average anxiety level of Tbilisi residents is 5.92 points. According to the study conducted by ACT on March 14-16 of 2020, average anxiety level was 4.9 points which means that concern level has increased by 1.02 point since the pandemic started.
Based on the study conducted in December, anxiety level varies by representatives of various age categories. As it turns out, average anxiety level increases along with the increase of age: concern rate equals 5.3 points for 18-34 age group; 6 points in 35-54 age category while the anxiety level reaches 6.5 points in 55+ residents.
*The survey was conducted through random sampling with 403 adult residents of Tbilisi on December 11-13 of 2020. Statistical error of data does not exceed 4.9% on average. Utilized method – telephone interviewing.
Air pollution has become a topical issue due to the increased number of cars in Tbilisi. There were ratings spread in the internet about Tbilisi being on the first position in terms of air pollution.
ACT was interested in people’s opinions, what they think or have heard about the organization fighting aginst this problem.
The survey showed that 18% of Tbilisi population believe the situation has improved in the last three years and Tbilisi has become greener, however, almost half of the residents (44%) think that the situation has worsened.
The survey revealed that Guerrila Gardening (Partizanuli Mebageoba) has quite a high awareness in Tbilisi, 62% of respondents have heard about it. Although, only 4% has participated in the actions organized by them. More than half of the population positively evaluated their work and 9% gave negative assessments.
ACT conducted the survey in October, 2016. Through random sampling method, 400 adult residents of Tbilisi were interviewed. Statistical error of the data does not exceed 4.9%, interviewing method – face-to-face interviews.
Every year, the capital city celebrates Tbilisoba during the first weekend of October. Based on opinion poll conducted by ACT, 88,4% of Tbilisi residents believe that Tbilisoba is an important event for the capital, 6.8% of residents believe that this holiday is not important while 2.9% do not have any determined position on this matter.
ACT was interested to find out how actively residents attended events held within Tbilisoba this year. Only 23% of inquired respondents attended events, the highest attendance was reported on concerts (44%), exhibitions (19%), agricultural market (16%), entertainment activities for children (9.4%), plays (6.4%) and festivals (5.4%).
According to general tendency, 22.1% of inquired respondents attend events held within Tbilisoba day every year, 24% of them do not attend at all, while 53.3% of respondents attend in different frequency.
*Survey was conducted with 400 adult residents of Tbilisi via random sampling in October of 2019. Statistical error data averagely does not exceed 4.9%. Utilized method – telephone interview.
In order to evaluate standard of living and economic level of population, it is important to analyze not only revenues, but expenses as well.
“ACT” was interested how much Tbilisi residents spend on food products per month and, therefore, what is their purchasing power.
According to survey results, average montlhy cost of food products amounts to 569 Gel.
About 30% of respondents are those consumers who spend a minimum amount of money on food products per month, more precisely - less than 300 GEL. The monthly expenses of a third of the Tbilisi population (34%) vary between 300-500 GEL. The rest of the respondents, (36%) spend a relatively large amount on food products on a monthly basis - their expenses exceed 500 GEL.
In addition, the average monthly household income of the respondents amounts to 1238 GEL.
*The survey was conducted among a random sample of 800 adults who reside in Tbilisi and are responsible for purchasing food products in family. Margin of error varies between 3,5-4,2%.