If there are no problems with something in Russia, it is with the work of sociologists. Through the efforts of VTsIOM and other organizations, sociological surveys are conducted in our country on a regular basis, and become a topic for controversy, indignation, and sometimes jokes.
The end of the year is the time to take stock. itop.techinfus.com/en/ has collected for you the most interesting polls 2018-2019. You may have even participated in one of them.
10. Russians do not trust the work of sociologists
Survey year - 2018
Who conducted the survey: VTsIOM
Despite the fact that many citizens willingly participate in opinion polls, there is no faith in the veracity of their results in Russian society.
37% of 1,600 Russians surveyed do not believe that public opinion polls reflect the true opinions of the people. In 2017, the number of distrustful people was lower - 29%, and in 2016 - only 22%.
However, even "Thomas the Unbelievers", namely 91%, admit that public opinion polls should be conducted.
- 78% of respondents said that such polls help the authorities to learn about the mood in the society.
- And 52% believe that the results of the polls will be useful to scientists studying society.
- Also, 53% of respondents are sure that polls are fabricated and published in the media in order to manipulate public consciousness.
9. Election of the President of Russia
Survey year - 2018
Who conducted the survey: Public Opinion Foundation
In February 2018, experts from the non-profit organization FOM interviewed 3,000 Russians about the upcoming (at that time) presidential elections in the Russian Federation.
- 63.5% of respondents said that if they go to the polls, they will vote for the current President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin
- 7.3% of respondents were then ready to vote for Vladimir Zhirinovsky - the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party
- and 6.2% of those polled supported the Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin.
- the same - 6.2% did not plan to go to the polls
- and 13.3% of respondents did not give an exact answer.
Well, now from 2019 we know better that the number of votes cast for Vladimir Putin turned out to be even higher than shown in the poll - 76.69%.
8. Three main problems of Russia
Survey year - 2018
Who conducted the survey: VTsIOM
Do you think this is vodka, fools and roads? But no. According to the respondents, there are three main Russian troubles:
- the poor state of the health care system - 28% of the respondents think so;
- problems in the field of education - said 23% of respondents;
- general economic downturn - say 21% of respondents.
These three problems have pushed into the background even declining living standards and wages. Apparently, the inhabitants of our country are getting used to living in poverty, or they follow the principle “were not rich, there is nothing to start”. If in 2017 26% of respondents were concerned about aspects of wages and living standards, then last year it was only 14%.
7. The main claims of Russians to the government
Survey year - 2018
Who conducted the survey: Levada Center
Over 50% of the respondents interviewed by Levada Center specialists in December 2018 would like the resignation of the Russian government. And that's why:
- 57% accuse the authorities of not solving the problem of rising prices and falling real incomes.
- 46% believe that the government cannot provide people with jobs.
- 43% stated that the authorities cannot socially protect Russians.
- And 33% think that those in power cannot cope with the economic situation.
- 30% of respondents said that the government does not have an economic development strategy - 30%.
- And only 7% have no complaints against the country's authorities.
6. What Russians are most afraid of
Survey year - 2019
Who conducted the survey: Levada Center
Most of all, Russians are afraid of the illness of their relatives and children. So the researchers of the "Levada Center" answered 61% of the respondents.
In second place is the fear “as if there were no war” (41% of respondents are afraid of this), and the three most frightening things for Russians are the fear of poverty (31%).
The scary top 5 also includes fear of a natural disaster (22%) and fear of losing accumulated savings (18%). And the fear of losing a job torments 16% of the respondents.
5. The more educated the father, the more the child is interested in learning
Survey year - 2019
Who conducted the survey: Institute for Applied Economic Research, RANEPA
In order to find out whether children are interested in studying at school and how good the educational programs are, experts from RANEPA interviewed 2,247 teachers and 2,220 parents from the Yaroslavl, Samara and Pskov regions.
- It turned out that the majority of parents of first-graders (46.4%) are completely satisfied with the educational program of their school. And the percentage of first-graders interested in learning is the highest - 45.9%.
- But among the parents of five-graders, the percentage of those satisfied with the curriculum is already lower - 39.1%.
- And least of all (13%) parents are satisfied with the educational program, according to which their children study from 6th to 9th grades. But from the 9th to the 11th grade, children do not need to be stimulated to study, because the OGE and the Unified State Exam are "on the nose".
It is curious that 73.6% of teachers believe that the content of educational programs needs to be changed.
RANEPA researchers note another interesting fact - a direct link between the level of education of the father and the child's interest in learning. But the level of education of the mother for some reason does not affect the child's motivation in the same way.
4. Best cities for quality of life
Survey year - 2019
Who conducted the survey: Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Where are those happy cities, whose inhabitants, when asked by Santa Claus to relocate them to another place, will answer: "Don't, we feel good here too?" This was found out by experts of the Financial University under the government of the Russian Federation.
They asked residents of 78 Russian cities with a population of over 250 thousand people to rate their city on a number of parameters. In each city, at least 600 people were interviewed.
Eventually the best city in Russia in terms of quality of life became Kazan.
3. Cats versus dogs
Survey year - 2019
Who conducted the survey: VTsIOM
Let Russia not be one of the richest or the happiest countries in the world... But on the other hand, in terms of the number of families with pets, our country literally hit the top ten. According to VTsIOM, the number of cat and dog owners in Russia reaches 68%.
Moreover, 57% of the people surveyed by VTsIOM experts gave their preference to cats, while in Latin America the situation is the opposite - there are 60% of "dog lovers".
- People between the ages of 18 and 24 often have pets - 76%.
- People aged 35 to 44 are also willing to give their love to a cat or dog - 72%.
- A little less often - those who are from 45 to 59 years old (71%).
- And residents of Russian villages are most willing to take a pet to their home (82%).
2. The residents of St. Petersburg most often agree to have sex at the first meeting
Survey year - 2019
Who Conducted the Survey: Marketing agency Zoom Market
In second place in the top 10 most interesting opinion polls in Russia is a rather provocative poll.The respondents (and there were as many as 3,000 of them) were asked whether they allow the possibility of sexual contact on the first date, as well as whether their date often ended with sex.
And it turned out that only 5% of Russians were the most liberated in this regard, while 94% of them were men.
Most often, residents of the northern capital are ready for sex on their first date, followed by residents of Voronezh and Muscovites. Residents of Perm, Krasnodar, Saratov, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Sevastopol and Bryansk also do not mind quickly moving their acquaintance from a vertical to a horizontal position. And least of all, citizens of Kazan and Makhachkala do it on the first date.
1. Young people are ready to flee Russia
Survey year - 2019
Who conducted the survey: Levada Center Foundation
About 53% of young people aged 18 to 24 are ready to leave Russia for good. Over the past 10 years, the rate of potential “out-of-town” has doubled. On the one hand, this speaks of the idealization of emigration (it's good where we are not) and the cosmopolitanism of young people, but on the other hand, it speaks of serious shortcomings in the socio-economic policy that the state is currently pursuing.
After all, it was the socio-economic factors that the majority of the respondents named as the main incentive to leave. Young people do not see stability in the economy, and they think that not in Russia, but abroad, they will be able to give their children a well-fed, secured and protected life.
Another third of the respondents named the political factor as the main stimulus.