Data Set
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Life in War Survey (LIWS): Tracking сhange amid the Ukrainian-Russian war
Version 1.0, published: July 17, 2025.
Description
Life in War Survey (LIWS) is a unique two-wave panel survey conducted in Ukraine before and during the full-scale invasion. Data collection was organised by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS). The first wave took place just before the onset of the full-scale Russian invasion – from January 18 to February 8, 2022, following the ESS 10 survey methodology. The survey sample represents Ukrainian residents aged 15 and over residing in areas under Ukrainian government control as of February 23, 2022. A stratified three-stage random sampling was applied. A stratification was done by region (covering 24 Ukrainian oblasts plus the city of Kyiv) and settlement type (urban or rural), resulting in 49 strata. In the first stage, electoral precincts were randomly selected within each stratum (300 precincts in total). In the next step, households were chosen using a random walk method within the selected precincts. Finally, from each household, one eligible respondent was randomly selected. In total, 1531 respondents were surveyed using computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) with the ESS 10 questionnaire.
The second wave was conducted via computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) from August 24 to October 6, 2022. During this phase, 595 respondents (39% of those who participated in the first wave) were successfully recontacted and included in the panel. This wave incorporated several questions from the initial survey, as well as new items on war exposure, displacement (both within Ukraine and abroad), and other topics.
The dataset package includes:
1. Survey data for both waves in .sav format (2 files)
2. Survey data for both waves in .xlsx format (2 files)
3. Questionnaires (first wave: Ukrainian, Russian and English; second wave: Ukrainian and English) in .pdf format (5 files). The English version of the first wave questionnaire corresponds to the ESS 10 source questionnaire
4. Codebook in .xlsx format (1 file)
5. Data description file in .pdf format (1 file), including a link to the ESS 10 source questionnaire and an app for online data analysis
In total, there are 11 files with a combined size of approximetely 7.8 MB.
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Keywords
Ukraine Russo-Ukrainian War Panel Data Longitudinal Studies