Financial positions of families, growth in prices and utility tariffs concern Ukrainian citizens most of all; the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine follows them, the poll released at a news conference at the Interfax office in Kyiv on July 30 showed.
The survey was conducted by the Social Monitoring center and the Ukrainian Institute of Social Studies named after Yaremenko jointly with the department for monitoring studies of the Institute of Economy and Forecasts of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences between July 4 and July 14. A total of 3,924 respondents were polled during face-to-face interviews.
According to the survey data released, the key issues which concern respondents are the financial position of their families (54.3 percent), price growth (45 percent), utility tariffs (40.5 percent), and the conflict in Donbas and mobilization (37.5 percent).
Important problems also include the health of respondents and their families (25.9 percent), increase in unemployment and the threat of losing a job (22.7 percent), and their children’s future (18 percent).
Ukrainian citizens are also concerned about careers (17.8 percent), the political situation in the country (16.1 percent), abuse of power of officials and law enforcement authorities (6.3 percent), and deterioration of the criminal situation (2 percent), the survey showed.
When asked about the main problems threatening the state, Ukrainian citizens said it was corruption (74.9 percent), dominance of oligarchs in politics and the economy (42.6 percent), Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and separatism (42.6 percent).
Respondents also think that Ukraine is threatened by the social and economic policy of the government (26.1 percent), lack of reforms (25.1 percent) and lustration (20.4 percent), the poll showed.
At that, citizens are concerned about a number of social and economic actions of the government – growth of utility tariffs (78.4 percent), depreciation of the hryvnia and price growth (70.4 percent), pension reform (27.1 percent) and restriction of benefits (26 percent), the survey showed.
Ukrainian citizens are also worried about the initiatives to sell strategic state enterprises (16.5 percent), sale of agricultural lands (14.5 percent), tax pressure of small and mid-size business (9.5 percent), appointing foreigners to state positions (7.6 percent), refinancing banks of oligarchs (7.5 percent), administrative reform (4.9 percent) and easing the withdrawal of funds offshore (3.4 percent).
Respondents find appealing the fight with red tape of former Georgian President and current Head of the Odesa regional administration Mikheil Saakashvili (43.4 percent), Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (42.2 percent), Radical Party leader Oleh Liashko (35.9 percent), Batkivschyna head Yulia Tymoshenko (28.9 percent), leader of the Bloc of Poroshenko parliamentary fraction Yuri Lutsenko (27.5 percent), Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk (27.1 percent), Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Service Oleksandr Turchynov (19.6 percent) and head of the Opposition Bloc fraction Yuriy Boiko (15.2 percent), the survey showed.
