defence-public-opinion-surveys

name: defence-public-opinion-surveys description: Retrieve Ministry of Defence public-opinion-on-defence survey reports from official historical PDF publication pages.

Defence Public-Opinion Surveys

Use when

• You need long-run public-opinion survey records on defence attitudes.
• You need comparable historical survey publications from one official source.

Avoid when

• You need broader social polling outside defence domain.

Inputs

• Year range.
• Topic keywords (readiness, willingness to defend, threat perception, NATO support).

Outputs

• Survey publication index with dates, file URLs, and extracted headline indicators.

Access reality statement

• Access type: download files.
• Verified on 2026-02-24.
• Survey reports are published as PDF links on the Ministry of Defence page.

Primary endpoints

• Main surveys page: https://www.kaitseministeerium.ee/et/eesmargid-tegevused/avalik-arvamus-riigikaitsest
• Example survey file pattern: /sites/default/files/avalik_arvamus_riigikaitsest_*.pdf

Retrieval workflow (reproducible)

1. Open surveys page and collect PDF links under /sites/default/files/....
2. Parse year/month from filename and map to publication chronology.
3. Download selected reports and extract core indicators requested by user.
4. Preserve question wording/source page when comparing across years.
5. Return dataset with both publication metadata and extracted indicators.

Request/query contract

• No auth required.
• Source is link-based (no documented API).
• Files are directly downloadable PDFs.

Output schema expectations

• source_page_url
• survey_file_url
• survey_period
• publication_date (if available)
• indicator_name
• indicator_value
• question_text
• notes

Limits and caveats

• Methodology and wording can change across survey waves.
• Historic files may use older naming/format conventions.
• Indicator extraction requires careful PDF parsing and consistency checks.

Verification hooks

• Page includes many PDF links such as avalik_arvamus_ja_riigikaitse_mai_2024.pdf and avalik_arvamus_riigikaitsest_2025_kantar_emor_.pdf.
• File archive spans early 2000s onward in visible links.