AfriCOG commissioned this post-election survey as part of its work on the 2013 general elections, the first general elections under the new constitution.
Due to the prolonged nature of the March 4th elections, this survey differed from the classic exit poll
The exercise started on Monday 4th March, 2013 and ended on 6th March.
Very few successful interviews were conducted on 4th as many people who were randomly called had not yet voted.
This meant that not every voter was being provided with an equal chance of being interviewed, especially in more populous areas
The exercise was thus carried out on 5th March, achieving 1800 interviews.
On the 6th 1000 calls were conducted to validate the results gathered on the 5th.
When the validation was completed and the results seemed to be a reflection of each other, the data was married, giving the total sample of 2800.