Saturday 09 / August / 2025
Muscat: The National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) in cooperation with the Projects, Tenders and Local Content Authority will commence conducting two public opinion polls on measurement of the awareness of the community with the local content on Sunday.
The two opinion polls include two samples one of which represents the society and represents the employees of the public and private sectors establishments.
The opinion polls come within the national efforts aimed to boost the in-country value (ICV) and to support the economic and social aspects of Oman Vision 2040.
The two opinion polls, which continue to 27 August, also aimed to measure the level of knowledge with the concept of the local content, to measure the extent of community and constitutional interaction with the policies of the support of the local products and the national service.
They are also aimed to study the factors affecting the preference of the local goods and to identify the challenges facing the individuals and establishments in adopting this strategic move.
The first opinion poll includes the individuals of both gender aged 18 and above and displays their awareness with the basic concepts of the local content while the second one focuses on the Omanis working at the sectors associated with the supply, manufacturing, distribution and marketing and examines the extent of implementation of their establishments with implementation of the local content policies, the procurement priorities and the challenges in dealing with small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Mahfoudh bin Salim Al Mashrafi, Director of the Opinion Poll Measurement Department at the NCSI said that these opinion polls represent a vital step towards the support of the decision makers with a clear vision established on reliable data on the actual condition and challenges of the local content in Oman.
