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Anano Kipiani
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Anano is a policy analyst at CRRC Georgia.
Georgians protesting the foreign agent draft law on 6 March 2023. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.
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Datablog | Georgians more aware of EU membership status than ever before

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In the months prior to the EU’s announcement of whether Georgia will receive candidate status, more Georgians were aware than ever before that the country was not yet a member of the EU. While surveys have consistently shown that a large majority of Georgians would vote for the country’s membership in the European Union, they have also previously shown that large shares of Georgians — up to one in six — believed that the country was already a member of the EU.  Newly released data from the 2

Datablog | The importance of remittances for Georgian households
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Datablog | The importance of remittances for Georgian households

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A new analysis of 2019 Caucasus Barometer data suggests that those Georgians whose households received remittances from abroad had a significant increase in economic wellbeing. Immigration from Georgia is common, with a prime motivator being the difficult economic situation in the country. Indeed, about three-quarters of Georgians have a close relative living abroad, and most send remittances to their relatives in Georgia. In turn, remittances made up 12.9%  of the country’s GDP in 2019. By co

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Datablog | Georgians are becoming more accepting of premarital sex

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While Georgian society tends to find sex before marriage unacceptable for women, attitudes are slowly changing. New data shows people increasingly think that both women and men having pre-marital sex is acceptable, at least some of the time. The results come from the Knowledge of and Attitudes towards the European Union in Georgia survey, funded by the Europe Foundation and carried out by CRRC Georgia. According to the data, the public is significantly more likely to accept men having sex be