The number of Ukrainians who believe that the next year will be successful is 17.7% higher than the number of those who believe that the next year will be unsuccessful. While the number of those who rate the past year as more successful is only 1.7% higher than those who rate it as more unsuccessful. These are the results of a sociological survey conducted by Active Group on December 30, 2023, using the SunFlower Sociology online panel.
Answering the question “In which areas did the Ukrainian government work best in 2023?”, the highest rating was given to attracting international economic support, which was indicated by 44.5% of respondents. Attracting international political support came in second place, with 33.5% of respondents mentioning it. Attracting international military support was named by 32.7% of respondents as the third most successful area of work of the Ukrainian authorities. The three areas of work of the government that respondents mentioned the least were “Ensuring the safety of citizens in the government-controlled territory” (5.3%), providing support to socially vulnerable groups (5.0%), and ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens in the government-controlled territory (1.4%).
Next, respondents were asked to answer the question of how much they trust the following politicians. It turned out that Volodymyr Zelenskyy has the highest level of trust among the respondents. Thus, the number of those who trust Zelenskyy (fully or partially) exceeded the number of those who do not trust him by 48.9%. Mykhailo Fedorov is on the second place from the proposed list, who also has a positive balance of trust, amounting to 24.1%. The number of those who trust Vitali Klitschko is only 1.9% less than those who do not trust him. The rest of the politicians from the proposed list (Dmytro Razumkov, Volodymyr Groysman, Oleh Tyahnybok, Oleh Lyashko, Oleksiy Arestovych, Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko) have a negative balance of trust and distrust, with percentages ranging from -20.5% to -76.6%.
Thus, the leaders of trust are Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Mykhailo Fedorov, who are trusted (partially or fully) by 71.3% and 56.1% respectively. And the leaders of distrust are Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, who are distrusted (partially or completely) by 75.7% and 84.1% respectively.
Respondents also assessed the usefulness of the work of the top three politicians – Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Petro Poroshenko, and Yulia Tymoshenko Volodymyr Zelenskyy received the highest score. 20.9% of respondents consider his activities “extremely useful” and 38.1% consider them “more useful.” The overall balance of usefulness and harmfulness for Zelenskyy is 31.5%.
Petro Poroshenko has a much more negative perception. Only 5.0% of respondents consider his activities “extremely useful,” and 15.3% – “more useful.” Instead, 22.5% consider his activities “more harmful” and 47.5% – “exclusively harmful”. His overall balance is -49.7%.
Yulia Tymoshenko also has mostly negative assessments. Only 1.7% of respondents consider her activities “exceptionally useful,” and 5.9% – “more useful.” However, 29.4% consider her activities “more harmful,” and 34.7% – “exclusively harmful.” The overall balance of usefulness and harmfulness for Tymoshenko is -56.5%.
Answering a couple of questions “Which of these politicians has done the most/least for the development of Ukraine?” Only Volodymyr Zelenskyi (48.4%) and Mykhailo Fedorov (9.8%) received a positive balance of answers. The rest of the politicians received a negative balance. The worst performers were Oleh Lyashko, Petro Poroshenko, and Yulia Tymoshenko with results of -38.4%, -39.0%, and -45.3%, respectively.
Next, respondents were asked to give their assessment of politicians’ openness to people, their ability to represent Ukraine in the international arena, and their moral and professional qualities.
Openness to people:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is considered the most open (45.2%), but 14.5% consider him the least open, with a difference of 30.7%.
Vitali Klitschko has a positive balance (10.6% vs. 8.7%), with a difference of 1.9%.
Yulia Tymoshenko has the worst balance (-27.4%), with 2.1% against 29.5%.
Representation of Ukraine in the international arena:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy leads (56.7% vs. 11.7%), with a difference of 45.0%.
Mykhailo Fedorov has a positive balance (10.3% vs. 4.3%), with a difference of 6.0%.
Petro Poroshenko has a significant negative balance (-29.0%), with 9.0% vs. 38.0%.
Moral qualities:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy also leads (44.2% vs. 13.4%), with a difference of 30.8%.
Mykhailo Fedorov has a positive balance (11.3% vs. 4.7%), with a difference of 6.6%.
Yulia Tymoshenko has the worst balance (-37.4%), with 2.5% vs. 39.9%.
Professional qualities:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is again the leader (40.4% vs. 15.0%), with a difference of 25.4%.
Mykhailo Fedorov has a positive balance (16.8% vs. 4.4%), with a difference of 12.4%.
Yulia Tymoshenko has a significant negative balance (-31.7%), with 5.0% against 36.7%.
Summing up the assessments of individual qualities, we can conclude that Volodymyr Zelenskyi with an average score of 48.4% and Mykhailo Fedorov with an average score of 13.1% are perceived most positively among the above-mentioned candidates. The most negatively perceived are Petro Poroshenko, with an average negative rating of 38.4%, and Yulia Tymoshenko, with an average negative rating of 37.6%.
The study was conducted by Active Group with the help of the SunFlower Sociology online panel. Method: Self-completion of questionnaires by Ukrainian citizens aged 18 and older. Sample: 2000 questionnaires (representative by age, gender and region of Ukraine). Data collection period: December 30, 2023. The theoretical error of the study does not exceed 2.2% (for results close to 50% with a confidence level of 0.95).
You can join the SunFlower Sociology online panel and receive a monetary reward for completing surveys by following the link.
Almost half of the voters in Vinnytsia region (47.4%) would support Vladimir Zelensky in the presidential election. These are the data of the sociological research conducted by the company “Active Group” on August 29 – September 2, 2023.
Assessing the direction of development of the country, the region and their city residents of Vinnytsia region believe that the country as a whole is developing in the right direction. The option “Completely true” was chosen by 22.4% of respondents, “Rather true” – 32.4%. “Rather wrong” was chosen by 18.6%, “Completely wrong” – 10.1%, 16.5% found it difficult to answer the question. 19.3% of respondents believe that the situation is developing in the right direction in Vinnytsia region, 41.3% believe that this statement is “Rather true”. 18,3% are convinced that this statement is “Rather wrong”, and 7,8% chose the option – “Completely” wrong. Another 13.3% chose the option – “Difficult to answer”. At the same time, only 18.6% agreed with the option that their city (OTG) is developing in the right direction, and another 33.9% agreed with the option that this is happening “Rather true”. The answer – “Rather wrong” was chosen by 21.6%, “Completely wrong” – by 14.3%. 11.6% chose the option “I find it difficult to answer”.
Answering the question “Which civilian structure, in your opinion, makes the greatest efforts to implement defense measures?” 39.6% of respondents are fully convinced that it is the OBA. 10.2% believe that it is the regional Rada, 18.1% believe that it is the Rada of the territorial community. 15,5% – none of these structures, 16,6% find it difficult to answer.
Regarding the awareness of the activity of local officials, 74.1% of respondents have heard about the activity of the OBA (Serhiy Borzov), 43.2% – about the activity of the chairman of the territorial community, 30.8% – about the activity of the regional council (Vyacheslav Sokolovyy)
To the question – “Which of these people, in your opinion, most influences the situation in Vinnytsia region?” 63.2% answered that it is Serhiy Borzov, 41.1% – Volodymyr Groysman, 25.2% – Petro Poroshenko, 22.3% – Vyacheslav Sokolovyy.
The distribution of answers to the question – “In your opinion, which of them primarily represents the interests of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky?” was as follows: Serhiy Borzov – 52.4%, Vyacheslav Sokolovyy – 5.4%, Chairman of the OTG – 8.3%, People’s Deputy from our district – 7.6%, none of them – 10.3%, the other – 2.6%, I find it difficult to answer – 13.4%.
The assessment of the leaders of trust on a ten-point scale was as follows: Sergei Borzov – 6.23 points, Irina Borzova – 5.82 points, Larisa Bilozir – 5.16 points, Nikolai Kucher – 4.93 points, Sergei Morgunov – 4.8 points.
On the question – “Which of these people would you vote for, if the election of the President of Ukraine were held in the near future and the following candidates were running?”, the leaders of the election race would be in Vinnytsia region as follows: Volodymyr Zelensky – 47.4% among all respondents. Petro Poroshenko – 10.7%. Serhiy Pritula – 7.8%. Dmytro Razumkov – 3.3% Yulia Tymoshenko – 3.2%. Igor Smeshko – 2.4%. Oleksiy Arestovich – 2.0%. Oleg Lyashko – 1.5%. Oleg Tyahnybok – 1.1%. Volodymyr Boyko – 0.6%. Would look for someone else – 6.2%. Would spoil the ballot – 1.0%. Would not go to the elections – 3.9%. I find it difficult to answer – 8.8%.
The situation is as follows by party: Servant of the People – 33.4% among all respondents. European Solidarity – 10.5%. Groisman’s Ukrainian strategy – 9.2%. August 24 – 3.4%. Batkivshchyna – 3.5%. Reasonable policy – 2.8%. Strength and Honor – 2.0%. Freedom – 1.5%. Voice – 1.3%. Other – 2.2%. Would spoil the ballot – 1.8%. Would not go to the polls – 6.7%. I find it difficult to answer – 18.8%.
As for the sources of information, 56.5% of Vinnichi residents would get it from Facebook, 37.5% – from Telegram, 34.8% – from the central television, 29.2% – from personal acquaintances or relatives, 27.8% – from Viber, 26.2% – from Instagram, 21.8% – from YouTube. Other sources of information received less than 20% of the respondents’ votes.
The full presentation with the results of the research can be downloaded at the link.
The research was carried out by the company “Active Group”. Survey method: personal formalized interview (face-to-face). General population: men and women over 18 years old living in Vinnytsia region. Sample: 2043 questionnaires (representative by age, gender and type of settlement). Data collection period: August 29 – September 2, 2023.
The research company Active Group has launched and published the First All-Ukrainian Ranking of Art Higher Education Institutions for the academic year 2022-2023. The aim of the project was to group art education institutions into a separate ranking and develop indicators for them that would take into account the specifics of art education institutions.
A total of 13 higher education institutions subordinated to the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy were included in the ranking:
Transcarpathian Academy of Arts
Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk
Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television named after I. K. Karpenko-Kary
Luhansk State Academy of Culture and Arts
Lviv National Academy of Arts
Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy
National Academy of Management Personnel of Culture and Arts
National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture
Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine
Odesa National Music Academy named after A.V. Nezhdanova
Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts
Kharkiv State Academy of Culture
Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I.P. Kotlyarevsky
The institutions were analyzed according to 18 parameters grouped into four blocks: Academic Capacity, Number of Students, Reputation and Information Activity, Financial Performance and Openness. The weight of each of the indicators was taken into account using coefficients obtained on the basis of expert opinions of representatives of the field of art education and students.
The authors of the ranking used multi-criteria approaches to evaluating the activities of universities based on the processing of data that can be obtained from open sources and whose validity can be verified.
To evaluate the indicators, they used information from open sources: websites of higher education institutions, the website of the Unified State Electronic Database on Education, monitoring of media publications, as well as responses to requests for access to public information sent by researchers to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
As a result, the First All-Ukrainian Ranking of Art Higher Education Institutions for the academic year 2022-2023 is as follows:
Educational institution Place in the ranking Result
Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine 1 3.09
Kharkiv State Academy of Culture 2 2.37
National Academy of Management Personnel of Culture and Arts 3 2.03
I.P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts 4 1.71
Lviv National Academy of Arts 5 1.61
National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture 6 1.58
Odesa National Music Academy named after A. Nezhdanova 7 1.56
Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts 8 1.54
I.K. Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television 9 1.48
Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy 10 1.17
Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after M. Boychuk 11 0.93
Luhansk State Academy of Culture and Arts 12 0.77
Transcarpathian Academy of Arts 13 0.46
The Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine won the ranking by a significant margin. The second place went to the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, and the third to the National Academy of Culture and Arts Management.
According to Oleksandr Poznyi, coordinator of the project to create a ranking of art universities, director of the research company Active Group, the main goal of the ranking was to evaluate artistic educational institutions, as existing rankings did not fully take into account the peculiarities of art institutions. We also invite everyone to join our project and work together to improve the criteria for evaluating art institutions.
In the future, the researchers plan to conduct a similar assessment annually to track the dynamics of the development of Ukrainian art education institutions.
Evaluation methodology:
At the first stage of the assessment, the researchers collected factual information on the specified parameters from open official sources. Depending on the parameter, these were the official resources of educational entities, official requests to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the Ukrainian State Center for International Education, as well as the QS rating.
The second stage involved normalizing various indicators to a scale from 0 to 1.5 so that different indicators could be compared.
This was followed by the third stage, in which each of the indicators was assigned a weight by experts in consultation with industry representatives and students in terms of the importance of the indicator for a potential applicant. The resulting coefficients are summarized in the table.
Parameter Coefficient
Academic capacity block
Number of faculties 1.5
Number of departments 1
Number of specialties 1.5
Number of educational programs 1.5
Number of accredited educational programs 1.5
Availability of scientists of specialized academic councils 1.1
Availability of professional collections of scientific publications 0.8
Number of students
Number of students of the first (bachelor’s) level – actual 1.5
Number of students of the first (bachelor’s) level – in accordance with the licensed volumes 1
Number of students of the second (master’s) level – actual 1.5
Number of students of the second (master’s) level – according to the licensed volumes 1
Number of students of the third (educational-scientific/educational-creative) level – actual 1.5
Number of students of the third (educational-scientific/educational-creative) level – according to the licensed volumes 1
Number of foreign students 0.8
Reputation and information activity
Information activity (number of references in the media) 1
Place or presence of the HEI in the international ranking QS WorldUniversityRankings 0.5
Financial indicators
Estimates for 2022 (general fund) 0.8
Estimates for 2022 (special fund) 0.8
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Further, in the course of the ranking, the relevant parameters were calculated for each university, normalized to the scale score and equalized by using weighting factors to the requests of experts and applicants. Normalized and multiplied by the appropriate coefficient, the indicators for each of the educational institutions were added together and the final result was obtained.
Rural people in general feel more secure than urban residents in the current situation in Ukraine, says political analyst Serhiy Lozovsky.
“People in villages feel themselves the least exposed to danger. And sociological studies confirm this. Rural residents have enough inner strength to secure themselves and their families. As to residents of cities, where government agencies must ensure security, there is a problem which makes them feel less secure in cities,” Lozovsky said, while commenting on a joint survey conducted by the Active Group and the Expert Club in a program on the latter’s YouTube channel.
According to the expert, this is caused by the fact that law enforcers often demonstrate poor response to acts of violence and violation of law.
“This often happens during mass events when law enforcers stand in line and show no response to beatings they witness,” Lozovsky said.
Earlier, at the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency, the Active Group and the Expert Club presented the results of their second joint survey. This time they studied Ukrainians’ opinion about work of central government agencies and local governments, unemployment growth caused by the quarantine restrictions, the population’s attitude towards official statistics on the coronavirus (COVID-19) incidence rate, as well as the main issues of concern for urban and rural residents.
The survey showed that the population in general negatively treats the incumbent government. Local governments enjoy the highest rating among Ukrainians – 45% of respondents praised their work, 38% said the president was doing a good job, and only around 20% praised the country’s prime minister.
Some 10.5% of those polled said the National Police worked good, while more than 55% said the opposite. Local police stations have the highest rating – 22% praised their work, while 39% said it was bad.
The main issues of concern for urban and rural residents include: quality of roads (54% of respondents), condition of the public facilities (44.7%), condition of the infrastructure inside buildings (43.5%), unemployment (34.2%), housing and utility tariffs (31.1%), mass renaming of streets, cities and villages (29.2%).
Additional information about the survey is available on the website of Active Group and on the Expert Club YouTube channel.
The video is available on the YouTube channel:
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Almost 60% of Ukrainians call themselves Europeans, according to the survey held by Active Group sociological company. This is evidenced by the results of a common study conducted by Active Group sociological company and the Experts Club company and presented at the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
“Being asked if he/she considers himself/herself a European, 43.4% of respondents said affirmatively, 14.6% said rather yes, while 13.6% said rather no, and 24.1% said definitely no,” said head of Active Group Oleksandr Pozniy at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine in Kyiv.
Another 4.3% found it difficult to answer this question.
According to the expert, 64.5% of citizens consider it important to introduce a visa-free regime with the countries of the European Union, while 72.3% did not use these preferences.
A number of 25.7% of respondents said visa-free regime is very important, according to 38.8% of the respondents it was rather important, for 18.8% – rather not important and 8.2% of the respondents considered it to be strongly useless.
According to the survey, only 23.5% of respondents took advantage of the “visa-free” opportunity to travel to European Union countries, 4.2% found it difficult to answer the question.
According to Active Group, the survey was conducted by telephone interview on June 7-9. Some 1,236 respondents were interviewed in all regions of Ukraine, except for the uncontrolled territories and Crimea. The study is representative by age, gender and place of residence. The sampling error does not exceed 2.8%.
Only 15% of citizens know the Constitution of Ukraine good enough, head of Active Group sociological company Oleksandr Pozniy said. This is evidenced by the results of a common study conducted by Active Group sociological company and the Experts Club company and presented at the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
“Being asked if one read the Constitution of Ukraine, 15% of respondents said that they have read it carefully and know it well,” Pozniy said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine in Kyiv on Monday.
According to him, in a course of the telephone poll carried by the Active Group from June 7 and 9, a total of 1,236 people from all over Ukraine, except of occupied territories and Crimea, were polled. The poll’s margin of error does not exceed 2.8%.
According to the survey, 42.3% of respondents read only separate provisions of the Fundamental Law, 24.1% once read something, but no longer remember it, 16.8% did not read, 1.8% found it difficult to answer.
At the same time, 81.6% of respondents believe that the Constitution should be known (48% say it is not necessary to know, 33.6% – rather should know).
According to 4.3% of respondents, it rather unnecessary to know the Constitution, 2.3% – it should not be learned at all, and 11.8% found it difficult to answer.
Nearly 51.6% of respondents did not face a situation where ignorance of the provisions of the Constitution caused them difficulties or problems; 16.1% – faced such a situation; 23% – could probably faced it, but are not sure; and 9.3% found it difficult to answer the question.
According to Active Group, the survey was conducted by telephone interview on June 7-9. Some 1,236 respondents were interviewed in all regions of Ukraine, except for the uncontrolled territories and Crimea. The study is representative by age, gender and place of residence. The sampling error does not exceed 2.8%.
