Experience of informal payment

Current value

No figure of ours is published yet. The value is released with its full methodology - and with the response rate, however uncomfortable.

Comparative reference

References we measure against: Global Corruption Barometer (بند التجربة لا الانطباع) - no nationally representative figure with a published methodology exists, so our first wave sets the baseline.

Context figure

89% see financial and administrative corruption as widespread
Arab Opinion Index in Syria (n=3,690) - Aug 2025 - source

A context figure, not a comparable reference: Perception, not experience; we measure experience - an actual informal payment in the past twelve months.

Indicator sheet

Definition	Share of households that paid an informal sum or gift to obtain a public service in the past twelve months
Unit	% of households
Domain	Governance
Module	Fixed core - asked in every wave
Cadence	Quarterly
Standards	AAPOR Transparency; ESOMAR
Methodological reference	Transparency International — Global Corruption Barometer

Methodology

This indicator is part of the Syrian Barometer: twenty national indicators with a methodology published before the number - the sampling frame, the sample table, the response rate and the field-safety protocol. Every correction is recorded in the public corrections log. The full protocol is deposited with a permanent identifier: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22559474.

All indicators

Country direction - Trust in institutions - Citizen priorities - Perceived safety - Cost of a living basket - Poverty line and headcount - Perceived unemployment - Intention to return among the displaced - Trust in the media - Electoral interest and intention to participate - Satisfaction with services - Assessment of the reconstruction path - Transitional justice - Perceived freedom of expression - Intention to leave - The missing - Civil documents and legal identity - Psychological distress - Impact of explosive remnants on movement