Fwd: PAAIA Releases 2011 National Survey of Iranian Americans

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Subject: PAAIA Releases 2011 National Survey of Iranian Americans
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PAAIA Releases 2011 National Survey of Iranian Americans National poll gathers accurate demographic and attitudinal information about the Iranian American community   December 7, 2011, Washington, D.C. - The Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) today released the findings of its third national public opinion survey of Iranian Americans.  The 2011 survey follows similar surveys commissioned by PAAIA in 2008 and 2009.  The surveys are an integral component of better understanding the Iranian American community and having its voice heard through the availability of on-going accurate scientific data.   PAAIA 2011 Survey Highlights In October of 2011, PAAIA commissioned Zogby Research Services (formally known as Zogby International) to conduct a public opinion survey of Iranian Americans to gather accurate attitudinal and demographic information about the Iranian American community.   The results of the 2011 PAAIA survey indicate that over the past three years, the importance of ethnic heritage to Iranian Americans remains unchanged, with eighty-three percent (83%) believing that their heritage is either very important or somewhat important to them.  Iranian Americans continue to retain close ties to family and friends in Iran, although percentages of respondents who say they have family in Iran has dropped off somewhat. Still six in ten Iranian Americans indicate that they communicate with their family and friends in Iran at least several times a month.  Most Iranian Americans (43%) believe that internal developments in Iran and the state of U.S.-Iran relations are at the core of their issues as Iranian Americans.  These issues correlate and are at the heart of domestic issues involving Iranian Americans in the United States (e.g., civil rights, discrimination, etc.).    Iranian Americans want the Iranian regime to change.  For the above mentioned self-interested reason, two-thirds of Iranian Americans believe that Iran should be a secular democracy.  In contrast, only six percent (6%) believe that any form of an "Islamic Republic" would work well in Iran.  The survey indicates that from among a list of six issues relating to U.S.-Iran relations, by far the greatest number of Iranian Americans (63%) cite the promotion of human rights and democracy as the most important, followed by thirty percent (30%) who cite the promotion of regime change.    However, though Iranian Americans want to see a democratic Iran that respects human rights, they differ on how the foregoing aspirations can be achieved.  Thirty eight percent (38%) believe that diplomatic negotiations or establishing diplomatic relations (each received 19%) are the best foreign policy approaches vis-à-vis Iran that would also be in the best interests of the United States.  In contrast, thirty-two percent (32%) of Iranian Americans believe that the promotion of regime change would be in the best interest of the United States. Only three percent (3%) of Iranian Americans favor a military option against Iran.    Please click here to read more PAAIA's surveys are conducted by Zogby Research Service (formally known as Zogby International), a pre-eminent polling firm, based on successful telephone interviews in English with representative sample of respondents. Zogby Research Service employs sampling strategies in which selection probabilities are proportional to population size within area codes and exchanges. The margin of error for the results of the 2008 & 2009 surveys were +/- 5 percentage points, which is an acceptable margin of error for a survey of this type.

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