07.05.2010
18% of surveyed citizens felt that under the new government in Ukraine there is already a curtailment of freedom of speech
- 18% of surveyed citizens felt that under the new government in Ukraine there is already a curtailment of freedom of speech.
Two thirds did not feel any curtailment of freedom of speech, and another 16% did not decide on this issue. - The greatest sense of pressure was felt in the West (38%), the North (24%), and the Center (18%).
- Among supporters of political forces, this includes: Our Ukraine (51%), Svoboda (45%), Front for Change (40%), and BYuT (36%).
- At the same time, 83% of supporters of the Party of Regions, 77% of supporters of the CPU, and 61% of supporters of Serhii Tihipko’s Strong Ukraine did not feel any curtailment of freedom of speech in Ukraine.
- Those most concerned about pressure on freedom of speech are middle-aged respondents (from 20% to 24%); the least concerned are pensioners (15%) and youth (17%).
- Curtailment of freedom of speech was felt mainly by respondents with higher education (18%) and secondary specialized education (20%).
Methodology
- Survey audience: population of Ukraine aged 18 and older.
- Sample size: 2000 respondents.
- Method: face-to-face formalized interview.
- Margin of error: for values close to 50% — not more than 3%; close to 30% — not more than 2.6%; close to 10% — not more than 1.8%.
- Fieldwork period: April 16–24, 2010.
- Regions:
- West: Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, Chernivtsi
- Center: Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy
- North: Kyiv city, Kyiv oblast, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv
- South: AR Crimea, Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Sevastopol
- East: Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv
- Donbas: Donetsk, Luhansk
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