Almost half of Ukrainians think their country developing

survey

05.06.2020 12:00

Ukrinform

Almost half of Ukrainians think that their country is developing, and the other half are convinced that life here is becoming unbearable, according to a survey conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).

KIIS Deputy Director Anton Hrushetsky presented the results of the survey entitled "Socio-political orientations of the population of Ukraine" at a press conference on Friday, June 5, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"Forty-seven percent of respondents believe that Ukraine is developing slowly and turning into a developed country. At the same time, 46% chose the opposite view that Ukraine is stagnating and life is becoming increasingly unbearable," Hrushetsky said.

According to him, 40.8 respondents believe that Ukraine as a country is on the path of unification, and 46.1% believe that the state is falling apart and is going to split.

At the same time, 43.7% of those polled said that the most important thing for Ukraine was the independence and integrity of its borders, whereas 34.5% think that the most important thing is the well-being of its citizens.

Some 29.6% of respondents believe that the most important thing for Ukraine is to win the war, and 49.1% believe that, first and foremost, it is necessary to develop the economy now.

The survey was carried out during April 26-30, 2020. A total of 1,500 people were interviewed. The poll's margin of error (with a probability of 0.95 and without taking into account the design effect) does not exceed 2.6% for figures close to 50%, 2.2% for figures close to 25%, 1.7% for figures close to 10%, and 1.1% for figures close to 5%.