As mentioned above, we use empirical data obtained in
the study of Kazakhstani NGOs. The data used in this paper were collected by
the Civil Alliance of Kazakhstan in 2011[11]. Using SurveyMonkey (an
online survey development cloud-based service), they sent out the
questionnaires to more than 1 500 organizations and had received back 224
completed questionnaires. Every questionnaire was filled by a director or a
senior officer. Further three questionnaires were rejected because they were
not complete (they had many missing data). Thus, returning rate was about 15
per cent.