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The Americas Barometer is an effort by LAPOP to measure democratic values and behaviors in the Americas using national probability samples of voting-age adults.

The 2006 round of the AmericasBarometer series of surveys is one of the many and growing activities of the [Latin American Public Opinion Project]. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided the core funding to enable to study to incorporate much of Latin America and the Caribbean, so that in 2006, the following countries were included: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay and Jamaica. The U.S. and Canada were also included, with the support of the Center for the Americas, of Vanderbilt University. The sample and questionnaire designs for all studies were uniform, allowing direct comparisons among them, as well as detailed analysis within each country. The 2006 series involves a total of 14 publications, one for each of the countries, authored by the country teams, and a summary study, written by Mitchell A. Seligson, member of the LAPOP team and other collaborators.

The results are of interest and of policy relevance to citizens, NGOs, academics, governments and the international donor community. The study could not only be used to help advance the democratization agenda, it could also serve the academic community which has been engaged in a quest to determine which values are the ones most likely to promote stable democracy.

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