03.04.2013
“PEOPLE'S TOP” Country where I would like to be born
- Rating Group continues its special project “People’s TOP”, which consists of a series of studies identifying the best of the best. The key feature of the methodology is that respondents are not given any lists or prompts; people express their opinions exclusively through open-ended questions, naming their own options. In April, we present the issue “The Country Where One Would Like to Be Born.”
- According to the study results, almost half of respondents (48%), if they had the opportunity to choose the country where they would be born, would choose Ukraine. About 9% of respondents would choose Russia, 5% — Germany, 4% — the United States, 2% each — the United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, and France, and 1% each — Poland, Canada, Sweden, and Belarus. At the same time, 2% would choose the USSR, and about 4% — other countries. About 16% of respondents were unable to answer the question.
- Overall, 15% of respondents, if they had the opportunity to choose the country where they would be born, would choose EU countries, and another 4% — the United States. Meanwhile, about 10% would choose Russia, Belarus, or Kazakhstan, and another 2% would choose the USSR.
- Russia was most often chosen in Donbas (18%), as well as in the South (13%) and East (13%) of the country. Germany, the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom were more often chosen in the West and North of the country. At the same time, in the Center of the country, Ukraine was most often chosen.
- The younger the respondents, the smaller the share of those who would like to be born in Ukraine: only about 40% of young people would choose Ukraine, while among older people this share is about 1.5 times higher. About every tenth young Ukrainian would like to be born in the United States, slightly fewer — in Germany and the United Kingdom. Women are more attached to Ukraine than men. Men more often chose Russia, Germany, and the United States.
- Interestingly, every tenth voter of the Communist Party of Ukraine would like to be born in the USSR. Every sixth voter of the Party of Regions and the Communist Party would like to be born in Russia. Meanwhile, every sixth voter of UDAR would choose Germany. The most loyal to the country turned out to be voters of Batkivshchyna and Svoboda — almost 60% of them, if they had the opportunity to choose the country where they would be born, would choose Ukraine.
Methodology
- Target audience: population of Ukraine aged 18 and older.
- Sample size: 2,000 respondents.
- Research method: face-to-face formalized interviews using a questionnaire.
- Margin of error (with probability 0.95):
- for values close to 50% — no more than 2.2%,
- for values close to 30% — no more than 2%,
- for values close to 10% — no more than 1.3%,
- for values close to 5% — no more than 1%.
- Fieldwork period: February 22–28, 2013.
- Regional distribution:
- West: Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, Chernivtsi regions
- Center: Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy regions
- North: Kyiv city, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv regions
- South: Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv regions, Sevastopol
- East: Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv regions
- Donbas: Donetsk, Luhansk regions
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