The poll was carried out from 27 November – 1 December 2006. The total size of the national sample was 1,180 respondents, while the sample size of public opinion leaders' parallel sample was 629 respondents representing seven categories. These include: private business executives; political party leaders; professionals (lawyers, engineers, medical doctors, dentists, pharmacists, geologists, nurses and agricultural engineers); those working in the media (writers, artists, journalists); leaders of professional associations, trade unions and NGOs; high ranking state officials (former ministers, directors general, MPs, senators, former security officers and tribal leaders) and university professors.

The survey was conducted to gauge public opinion on the performance of the Bakhit government after one year in office. The poll is the latest in a series, that the CSS has been conducting since 1996,  as  each successive government has been sworn in and then after a hundred days, six months and one year in office. The polls are intended to measure both opinion leaders and the general public's initial expectations and then their perceptions of the prime ministers' and their teams performance.

The aim of this latest poll was to identify trends in Jordanian public opinion with regard to the evaluation of the performance of Dr. Bakhit’s government; especially concerning its ability to solve the problems and issues assigned to it. The poll also measured the public’s assessment of the problems that Jordan is currently experiencing and  that “the government must deal with immediately.” The study also tried to explore the respondents' perceptions of the possible impact of government reshuffles on Jordan's policies, especially at the domestic level.

This survey covers of five themes:

• The first addresses Jordanian public's general expectations and evaluations of  the performance of the current government as compared to the previous governments since 1996. This section also includes the results of all the polls that have been conducted on each successive government (formation, 100 days, 200 days, one year, one year and a half, two years). In order to properly identify the attitude of Jordanian public opinion toward different governments, the report supervisors calculated the percentage of respondents who believe that the government “will be highly successful” in carrying out its responsibilities, as well as the percentages of those who believed that the government “has not been successful in carrying out its responsibilities since its formation” in all the previous polls.

• The second section presents a general comparison of the respondents' assessments of the performance of the prime minister, the ministers, as well as the government as a whole.

• The third section examines public perception of the government's performance after one year in office, compared to that in the 200 day poll and the citizens' expectations from Bakhit’s government upon formation.
• The fourth section is a general comparison of the respondents' expectations after the recent cabinet reshuffle, and their assessment of the performance of the prime minister, the ministers, and the government in general.

·        The fifth section addresses the main problems currently faced by Jordan and which require the government's immediate attention. This section also includes citizens' perceptions of the financial/ economic status of their families during the past three years.