As of December 2024, 52% of Ukrainians trusted President Vladimir Zelensky, 39% did not trust him.
The remaining 9% answered that they could not decide on their attitude. Although trust indicators have worsened over the year, the balance of trust-distrust remains positive – +13%.
These are the results of a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
In all regions of Ukraine the situation is quite similar and the balance of trust and mistrust is positive. There is a slightly better attitude towards the President in the West (balance of trust-distrust +27%) and in the Center (+13%).
In the South and East, trust indicators are also quite high, but somewhat lower and the trust-distrust balance in these regions is close to 0 (i.e., approximately the same proportion is trusted and distrusted).
Sociologists’ explanation of the survey
During December 2-17, 2024, the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) conducted its own all-Ukrainian public opinion poll “Omnibus”, to which, on its own initiative, it added the question of trust in the President (in two different formulations).
Using the method of telephone interviews (computer-assistedtelephoneinterviews, CATI) based on a random sample of mobile telephone numbers (with random generation of telephone numbers and subsequent statistical weighting) in all regions of Ukraine (territory controlled by the Government of Ukraine), 2000 respondents were interviewed (half in the same formulation, half in different wording). The survey was conducted with adult (aged 18 years and older) citizens of Ukraine who, at the time of the survey, lived in the territory of Ukraine controlled by the Government of Ukraine.
The sample did not include residents of territories that are temporarily not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities (at the same time, some of the respondents were IDPs who moved from the occupied territories), and the survey was not conducted with citizens who left abroad after February 24, 2022.
Formally, under normal circumstances, the statistical error of a sample of about 1000 respondents (since half of the respondents answered each version of the question about trust) (with a probability of 0.95 and taking into account the design effect of 1.3) did not exceed 4.1% for indicators close to 50 %, 3.5% for indicators close to 25%, 2.5% – for indicators close to 10%, 1.8% – for indicators close to 5%.
In war conditions, in addition to the specified formal error, a certain systematic deviation is added. Factors that may influence the quality of results in wartime conditions were previously cited by KIIS.
Source: Racurs
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