This analysis indicates that using individually modelled past voting choice instead of self-reported past vote choice would have provided a satisfactory solution to the problem of social desirability bias as encountered by the SLOTS survey prior to the 2024 Presidential Election. 

Sri Lankans views of the country’s direction improved dramatically in SLOTS polling for September 2024. In the weeks leading up to the Presidential election, a net 43% of the public thought the country was heading in the wrong direction. This reversed after the election, with a net 5% of Sri Lankans saying that the country was headed in the right direction in the last ten days of the month, the highest level since SLOTS started tracking this in April 2022.