Pakistan National Corruption Perception Survey 2006

The first National Corruption Survey was conducted by TI Pakistan in 2002 and a detailed report was prepared. The Survey results were announced in a press release issued jointly by Transparency International Secretariat and TI Pakistan.

The Survey model prepared by TI in 2002 was used, and 24 page questionnaire was repeated to carry out surveys from 4.000 respondents from all the four provinces. The physical survey commenced in April 2006, and completed in July 2006.

1. Police, Power, Judiciary and Land are the mot corrupt departments, and Taxation, Customs & Health have improved their ranking since 2002.

2. In response to the query “ In your opinion which Province is the most corrupt”? The respondents of each Province considered their own Province as the most corrupt except NWFP, where Punjab was rated high as a corrupt Province as compared to the other three.

3. The Present District Government System has been rated as a better system by 68% of Rrespondents.

4. Majority (70%) of Respondents feel that the present Privatization Policy will minimise corruption.

5. The three main reasons of corruption in view of our respondents were: “lack of Accountability, “low salaries of the Government Employees” & “Discretionary Power.”

6. The three measures suggested for combating corruption were: “Accountability”, “Adequate Salaries” & “Speedy Judicial process”.

7. Comparing the two investigation agencies FIA & NAB. NAB has been assessed a better one with 58.52 & FIA at 41.48%

8. Bribery or palm greasing has become so much part of the system that in all the ten sectors, the demand is directly made by the officer or person involved, without needing a negotiator or middle man.

9. Assuming that there are 20 million Households ( 8 persons per house) in the country, average bribery expenditure being Rs.2,303 per household, almost Rs.45 Billion is the cost of petty corruption at the lowest level.