From February 12-19, 2009, IRI fielded a national public opinion poll in Montenegro. 

The poll field work was conducted by Strategic Marketing Research in Podgorica, Montenegro.  Oversight and analysis was provided by David Williams of Williams & Associates of Salem, Massachusetts.

The sample size was 1,407 completed interviews.

The population under study is representative for the population of Montenegro older than 18 years by gender, age, education, settlement size and region

The research was conducted by face-to-face interviews in respondents’ homes.

Maximum sampling error on whole sample: +/- 3.2 percent.

The poll surveyed a nationwide random, three-stage, stratified representative sample.  The primary sampling units were polling station territories chosen with probability proportional to size, sampled by cumulative, Lachirie method; secondary sampling units were households chosen with simple random sampling without replacement, sampled with random choice of the starting point and equal steps of choice; tertiary sampling units were respondents sampled by Kish scheme.  First level strata were five regions and second level strata were two types of settlement, urban and rural.

Respondents were disqualified if they were younger than 18 years of age and if they or any member of their close family was employed at a newspaper, television station, radio station or political party.

Survey response rate was 66 percent.