Self-reported civic activities of the Russian population (Levada Center)

Random-sample questionnaire-based nationally representative polls conducted as omnibus surveys 2015-22

Version 1.0, published: Oct. 24, 2022

Open Access

Andrey Tkachenko


Main category: Protests
Dataset ownership has been transferred. Previous users: Heiko Pleines (until Feb. 13, 2024, 7:27 p.m.)
Levada Center (2022): Self-reported civic activities of the Russian population (Levada Center), v. 1.0, Discuss Data, <doi:10.48320/E5FC1C1E-4A59-41CA-B325-E23E09BD5EF4>.

Description

The Levada Center has been conducting omnibus surveys of the Russian population on a regular basis. This data collection includes questions about the respondents’ own civic activities - together with standard social-demographic and political data about all respondents, from a total of seven opinion polls conducted in 2015, 2018 and 2020-22.

This documentation of data collection documents the questions included in the dataset and provides information about the random-sample questionnaire-based nationally representative polls conducted as omnibus surveys. The original data files are in Russian, but this documentation lists all questions and answer options with an English translation.

Included in this data collection are the relevant questions from the Levada omnibus surveys. The SPSS file (.sav) is the original file provided by the Levada Center. It has been exported into an Excel file. The content of the respective xlsx-file should be identical with the original sav-file. An overview of some selected results is included in the data collection as a separate file.

Countries

Russia

Keywords

Political Culture Civil Society Civic Activities

Language of data

English Russian

Disciplines

Comparative Politics Social Movement Studies Sociology

Methods of data collection

Public Opinion Poll