Methodology Questionnaire The questionnaire used for this survey is comprised of 90 multiple choice questions, of which 8 are demographic/geographic, and 2 administrative. This edition of the barometer included four questions on citizens’ perceptions of the security situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, two questions were included regarding the religious affiliation and attendance of religious services. This reflects the religion’s growing role in society and politics. Several interrelated questions are found in sequential order, comprising a series of 2 to 3 questions(such as questions 12 and 13; 15 and 16; 17 and 18; 19 and 20, and 23, 24 and 25). In answering these questions, respondents first excluded the first-choice answer to the previous question(excluding their first and second choices in the third questions of three-question sequences). Such sequential questions were chosen for those topics where the collection of addition data was necessary for more in-depth analysis. For instance, in questions 23, 24 and 25, interviewees were asked to select who they thought were the first, second and third friendliest countries towards Albania. By combining the data collected through these questions, we are able to see the most common choices provided by the respondents(full questionnaire in Annex 1). Sample A multi-layered random sample of 1115 adults were used for this survey. In the first layer, questionnaires were proportionally distributed among 61 municipalities of Albania based on their adult population. In the second layer, observations were proportionately distributed among urban, suburban, and rural areas within each municipality, in order to mirror the Albanian population distribution(Annex 2). Similarly, proportional gender and age quotas were developed for each sublayer. Finally, geolocation points were randomly selected from the map of Albania for the interviews, according to the above sampling scheme(Annex 3). The purpose of this multi-layered sampling approach was to achieve accurate geographic and demographic representation of Albania’s adult population, while maintaining a sampling error lower than ± 2.9% for the overall sample. 11