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Randomization in small sample surveys with the Halton sequence
( European Survey Research Association , 2018 , Article)Randomization has been widely used in surveys for various purposes such as within household respondent selection, rotation of questions and answer choices, and split sample (or ballot) technique for survey experiments. The ... -
Reasons for Participation in Household Surveys in the Arab Gulf Countries, Qatar
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Participation in public opinion surveys in the State of Qatar is voluntary, and respondents are not offered incentives for participating. Nevertheless, rates of participation in face-to-face surveys conducted by the Social ... -
Reasons for unit non-response in household Surveys in the Arab Gulf Countries
( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University , 2013 , Poster)For in-person household surveys, it is fundamental to consider societal customs when choosing appropriate times and interviewer gender. However, even after all these procedures were taken into consideration with an eye to ... -
Refinancing the Rentier State: Welfare, Inequality, and Citizen Preferences toward Fiscal Reform in the Gulf Oil Monarchies
( City University of New York , 2021 , Article)Against the backdrop of fiscal reform efforts in Middle East oil producers, this article proposes a general framework for understanding how citizens relate to welfare benefits in the rentier state and then tests some ... -
Reform of the Kafāla System: A Survey Experiment from Qatar
( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2016 , Article)Immigration in the Arabian Gulf is governed by the kafāla (sponsorship) system, which provides the legal basis for the residency and employment of foreign workers across the region. Despite mounting economic, political ... -
The relationship between sleep duration and health status in Qatar’s population
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Knowledge of sleep duration correlates is limited to developed countries with a lack of studies in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). Qatar is a rapidly developing country in the EMR with three distinct population ... -
Renegotiating the Ruling Bargain: Selling Fiscal Reform in the GCC
( Middle East Institution , 2016 , Article)Built upon depletable reservoirs of oil and natural gas, the petro-states of the Arab Gulf have, since their beginning, always had one eye fixated on the end: the exhaustion of their life-giving natural resources, and ... -
Research Report: The Political Economy of Sectarianism in the Gulf Region
( Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , 2017 , Other)This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines ... -
Resilience and Sustainability in the Gulf Migration Regimes: Kafāla in the Era of Covid-19
( Routledge , 2023 , Article)The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has strongly reaffirmed the critical importance of labor migration to the global economy, even as it has raised questions about the temporary migration programs responsible for much of this ... -
The Rise and Fall of Teacher Leadership: A Post-Pandemic Phenomenological Study
( Routledge , 2023 , Article)This study explored teacher leadership functions during and post-school disruption, due to COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were recruited from three primary government schools in Qatar, and included 12 teachers, three ... -
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier
( Taylor & Francis , 2016 , Article)The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier. Regional Studies. This paper examines Kuala Lumpur’s emergence as a prominent global Islamic financial centre. Its distance from the West and the Middle East offers ... -
Road traffic fatalities in Qatar Jordan and UAE
( World Health Organization , 2016 , Article)ABSTRACT Smeed’s equation is a widely used model for prediction of traffic fatalities but has been found inadequate for use in developing countries. We applied regression analysis to time-series data on vehicles, population ... -
The role of religiosity types in the phenomenology of hallucinations: A large cross-sectional community-based study in a predominantly Muslim society
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Religiosity is a multidimensional construct known to influence the occurrence of hallucinations. However, it remains unknown how different religiosity types affect clinically relevant phenomenological features of hallucinations. ... -
School Leadership 4.0: Are We Ready?
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Book chapter)This study explores the relevance of Leadership 4.0 in the context of Education 4.0 for school leaders. By investigating school leaders’ knowledge and perceptions of Education 4.0, the study provides insights into their ... -
Sectarianism from the Top Down or Bottom Up? Explaining the Middle East’s Unlikely De-sectarianization after the Arab Spring
( Taylor and Francis , 2020 , Article)Sectarian politics has retreated across the Middle East in the years after the Arab Spring, even as conflict between the region’s two main sectarian actors—Iran and Saudi Arabia—has intensified. This essay explores this ... -
SEPARATION HYPOTHESIS TESTS IN THE AGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLD MODEL
( Oxford University Press , 2010 , Article)In an agricultural household model, farmers’ production decisions can be either separated or nonseparated from preferences. Since previous studies on agricultural household behavior and policy effects have shown that the ... -
Servant Leadership And Perceived Challenges In Stem Classes: The Reinforcing Role Of Problems And Management Techniques
( GIAP Journals , 2019 , Article)Purpose: This study investigates how high school principals’ leadership can directly and indirectly affect perceived challenges (obstacles) in STEM classes, with specific reference to teachers in Qatar. Design/methodolo ... -
SESRI Experience in Managing Field Laptops Deployment
( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University , 2015 , Conference Paper)In this technical presentation, I presented the way SESRI configure field laptops and prepare them to the field with maximum security aspects taken into consideration to safeguard against response data lost, Also how SESRI ... -
Shedding Light on the Roots of Dissatisfaction with Health Care Services in the State of Qatar An Exploratory Study
( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University , 2016 , Poster)Dissatisfaction with health care performance is an important source of information about health system quality as perceived by the public. It has long term negative impacts on: *Relationship between health care users ... -
Shedding Light on the Roots of Dissatisfaction with Health Care Services in the State of Qatar: An Exploratory Study
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Introduction: Dissatisfaction with health care performance is an important source of information about health care reforms as perceived by the public as it is associated with negative beliefs about health system. Previous ...