Dubai Community Development Authority (DDA) has launched the sixth social survey project in Dubai, in partnership with the Dubai Statistics Center, which will start its field phase on 21 September this year to promote initiatives, strategies, programs and policies aimed at meeting the needs and needs of families and individuals in the community.
Ahmed Julfar, Director General of the Community Development Authority in Dubai, said: “We are keen to launch a social survey regularly to measure the performance of the social sector in the Emirate of Dubai, monitor social issues and phenomena, analyze the data and information collected about community members and identify their needs and requirements to develop programs and services. We aim to build a database on social indicators in the emirate that will contribute to the future planning process and In collaboration with the Dubai Statistics Center, we will work to harness all the capabilities, capabilities and work teams to collect data and information about UAE nationals and residents in order to shed light on important community issues. And to benefit from the outputs in building a leading social system, which is to enhance the competitiveness of the Emirate of Dubai in various fields to achieve the ultimate goal of happiness and satisfaction of people.
For his part, Arif Al Muhairi, Executive Director of the Dubai Statistics Center, said that the survey comes within the periodical statistical projects that support planning and decision-making processes, which is the most important permanent statistical project for the community development sector. This provides the Authority with a sequential and integrated data that enables comparison and identification of performance patterns and levels of improvement and measuring the impact of policies and programs aimed at the development of society and identify the challenges and aspects that require intervention during the next phase. G Community Development Authority is considered a model characterized by integration, continuity and continuous development and distinguishes teamwork in joint ventures, to become a social survey of the Emirate of Dubai today one of the typical joint ventures which have a strategic return on short, medium and long term.
The Community Development Authority stated that the survey aims to measure the performance indicators of the social development sector in the Emirate of Dubai, and to identify the social reality in the Emirate in general and link it to some demographic, social and economic variables. The survey will build a database on the social status of the emirate and study the living conditions of 4,000 families and 500 members of labor gatherings in different parts of the emirate.
The survey will be conducted by a team of 74 participants distributed among researchers, field supervisors, auditors and administrators. In the Emirate in general and linked to some demographic, social and economic variables, in addition to the establishment of information bases on the social situation to be used in the development of strategies and policy formulation and to identify the requirements, needs and opinions of society and Assist and assess the impact of policies and programs related. To build a database on social reality, including quantitative data and general views related to the social reality in the Emirate. And to identify the living conditions of the families of the Emirate in general nationalities and different types. Measuring the performance indicators of the Dubai Strategic Plan for the Social Sector and the performance indicators of the Community Development Authority. Social surveys are an effective way to identify people's opinions, values and attitudes regarding social issues, phenomena and relationships prevailing in society, as well as their social needs and future aspirations related to the social sector.