15.12.2009
Ukrainians about Lviv
- Almost 20% of Ukrainians have visited Lviv during the last three years; among them almost 30% went to meet relatives, close people or friends, one quarter went as tourists, one in five went on business trips, about 5% for study purposes, and 22% for other reasons.
About half of Ukrainians would like to visit Lviv; among them one in five plans to do so already in the coming months, 22% within a year, 22% within the next three years, and another 37% in the more distant future.
It should be noted that people who have already been to Lviv are much more inclined to visit the city again. Thus, 81% of those who have already been in the city would like to visit Lviv, compared to 40% of those who have not yet been there.
Lviv was visited most often by residents of the West (about half had been there during the last three years), and of the Center and the North (about 20%).
Lviv was mainly visited by young people aged 18–39. They also have the strongest desire to visit the city again. - Most often, Lviv is associated by Ukrainians with beautiful, old architecture (41%). This statement dominates in assessments in all regions without exception. However, 4% think that architectural monuments in Lviv are in very poor condition, and 4% think that besides looking at architecture there is nothing else to do there.
For almost one in five respondents, Lviv is a city whose residents are patriotic, preserve Ukrainian traditions, and celebrate Christmas, Easter, and other traditional holidays well. For 17% of respondents it is a city of cozy restaurants and cafés, as well as tasty sweets and coffee.
Almost 15% consider Lviv the cultural capital of Ukraine. For 14%, it is a well-kept, clean, European city (less than 1% consider Lviv a dirty, neglected city).
14% of respondents consider Lviv a city of tasty beer. 7% consider Lviv the most beautiful city in Ukraine. - About 13% of respondents believe that the city’s residents react very aggressively to the Russian language; 7% think that “Banderites” live in Lviv. 12% believe the city has a more Polish than Ukrainian spirit. 5% consider Lviv residents very arrogant and condescending. 4% think that Lviv lives off the money earned by Eastern Ukraine, and 3% believe it would have been better if Western Ukraine had not been annexed to the USSR in 1939.
- For the Donbas, Lviv on the one hand is a city with beautiful architecture (24%) and where Christmas and Easter are well celebrated (11%). On the other hand, one in ten residents of Donbas believes that “Banderites” live in Lviv, who react aggressively to the Russian language (16%) and live off the money earned by the East (11%).
For 6%, Lviv means bad roads; for 4%, a city where water is supplied irregularly. - 18% of respondents have no idea about Lviv at all (among those who have been to Lviv this is only 0.3%, among those who have not been to the city – 22%). Residents of the Donbas are the least informed about Lviv: 21% have no idea about it, and another 21% did not name any statement that would match their idea of the city.
The higher the level of education of respondents, the better their understanding of the city.
It should be noted that for respondents who have already been to Lviv, both the advantages of the city and its shortcomings (bad roads, lack of water, etc.) became more evident.
Respondents under 40 years of age more often highlighted the cultural advantages of the city. For them, Lviv is also a city of entertainment: cozy restaurants and cafés, tasty sweets, coffee, and beer. At the same time, in the assessments of older people, stereotypical negatives (“Banderites,” language, etc.) are more strongly present.
Women and men perceive Lviv almost identically, except for one statement: men twice as often spoke of Lviv as a city of tasty beer.
Methodology
- Survey audience: population of Ukraine aged 18 and older.
- Sample size: 2000 respondents.
- Method: face-to-face formalized interview according to a questionnaire.
- Margin of error: for values close to 50% – not more than 3%, for values close to 30% – not more than 2.6%, for values close to 10% – not more than 1.8%.
- Fieldwork period: 28 November – 7 December 2009.
- Regional breakdown:
- West: Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, Chernivtsi
- Center: Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy
- North: Kyiv city, Kyiv region, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv
- South: Crimea, Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Sevastopol
- East: Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv
- Donbas: Donetsk, Luhansk
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