Less than half of the adult population of Ukraine has expressed their readiness to participate in social protests, and most of them intend to participate in such kinds of actions as election campaign and collection of signatures under collective appeals, according to a survey conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) in December 2017.
According to the results of the survey presented on February 13, 40 percent of adult Ukrainians are ready to participate in protests. Compared with previous years, the level of willingness to participate in such actions rose from 43 percent in December 2014 to 49 percent in December 2016, but then declined to 40 percent in December 2017.
At the same time, the share of those who say they are not ready to participate in any mass protests has grown, from 46 percent in 2016 to 53 percent in 2017.
The largest number of people, as before, is ready to resort to such forms of social protest as participation in the election campaign (28.9 percent), collection of signatures under collective appeals (16.5 percent), and authorized rallies and demonstrations (9.6 percent). From 2 percent to 3 percent of respondents noted that they are ready to take part in a strike, boycott, picketing of state institutions, unauthorized rallies and demonstrations. Some 0.7 percent of respondents said they were ready to participate in the seizure of buildings and the same percentage is ready to go on a hunger strike. The idea of creating armed formations was supported by 0.6 percent of respondents.
KIIS conducted an all-Ukrainian public opinion poll from December 1 to December 14, 2017.
