Data Set
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Supporting Democracy Among the Population of Ukraine (2004, 2013-2024)
Merged data from nationwide public opinion surveys from May 2004 to December 2024
Version 1.0, published: Jan. 31, 2025.
Description
The dataset includes data collected from a series of public opinion surveys conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation in cooperation with the Social Monitoring Centre (in 2004), the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (in 2019), and the Razumkov Centre sociological service from May 2004 to December 2024. In total, the dataset includes 7 nationwide public opinion surveys. A total of 13658 adult respondents participated.
The dataset includes a question that reveals the attitudes of Ukrainians towards the democratic regime before and during the Russian invasion. In addition, the main social and demographic characteristics of the respondents were added to the dataset: gender, age, macro-region of residence, type of settlement, education, and financial situation.
The years 2015-2018, 2020, and 2021 are omitted from the dataset, as the question of attitudes towards the democratic regime was not raised in these years.
Composition of macro-regions:
West – Volyn, Zakarpattya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil and Chernivtsi regions;
Center – Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions, as well as the city of Kyiv;
South – Zaporizhzhya, Mykolayiv, Odesa, Kherson regions and Crimea;
East – Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
This dataset contains merged survey data from 2004 to 2024 (7 surveys) in SPSS (.sav) format. It has been exported to an Excel file. The contents of the corresponding XLSX file should be identical to the original SAV file. The methodology of all included surveys and the questionnaire are presented in the "Documentation" (PDF file) in English. The dynamics of respondents' answers by year, summarised by the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, is presented in the PDF file "Results" in Ukrainian.