Thir­ty-four per cent of re­spon­ders to a Sun­day Guardian on­line sur­vey be­lieve the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has been "very ef­fec­tive" as this coun­try's Op­po­si­tion.

A to­tal of 28.5 per cent of the re­spon­ders, how­ev­er, be­lieve that the UNC has not been ef­fec­tive at all.

When the da­ta is fur­ther analysed 36.40 per cent of fe­males sur­veyed be­lieve that the UNC led by this coun­try's first ever fe­male prime min­is­ter and cur­rent Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has not been ef­fec­tive as the Op­po­si­tion.

On Fri­day the Sun­day Guardian pub­lished a poll to the so­cial me­dia Web site Face­book, invit­ing users to rate the per­for­mance of the UNC as mem­bers of the Op­po­si­tion.

The poll was cre­at­ed through the Web site Sur­vey Mon­key. Re­stric­tions on the ques­tion­naire did not al­low users to take the sur­vey mul­ti­ple times.The poll, which was open for 22 hours on the Web site and pub­lished on the Guardian's Face­book page, re­ceived 616 re­spons­es.

Re­spon­dents were asked to rate the over­all ef­fec­tive­ness of the UNC in Op­po­si­tion.

The ma­jor­i­ty of re­spon­dents, 54.35 per cent, per­ceived the UNC as a di­vid­ed par­ty.

The da­ta was al­so fil­tered by age de­mo­graph­ics, which showed that of those be­tween 18 and 54 years, 35.15 per cent viewed the par­ty as very ef­fec­tive.

On­ly 27.85 of those over 55 viewed the par­ty as very ef­fec­tive.