21.05.2015
The most prominent Ukrainians
- Rating Group continues the special project “People’s TOP,” which consists of a series of studies aimed at identifying the best of the best. The key feature of the methodology is that respondents are not provided with any lists or prompts, and express their opinions exclusively through open-ended questions.
- This time respondents were asked: “Name the three most outstanding Ukrainians of all time.”
- According to the survey results, the majority of respondents named Taras Shevchenko (62.9%) among the most outstanding Ukrainians of all time. The top four leaders are complemented by Bohdan Khmelnytskyi (23.5%), Lesya Ukrainka (19.0%), and Mykhailo Hrushevskyi (12.7%).
- The top ten also includes Ivan Franko (9.4%), Ivan Mazepa (9.3%), Stepan Bandera (8.3%), Viacheslav Chornovil (7.6%), Hryhorii Skovoroda (4.7%), and Yaroslav the Wise (4.4%).
- The second ten includes Volodymyr the Great (3.4%), Vitalii Klitschko (3.0%), Mykola Hohol (2.6%), Mykola Amosov (2.2%), Leonid Kuchma (1.6%), Bohdan Stupka (1.6%), Leonid Kravchuk (1.4%), Borys Paton (1.2%), Lina Kostenko (1.2%), and Roman Shukhevych (1.0%).
- The third ten includes Nestor Makhno (1.0%), Yulia Tymoshenko (1.0%), Sofia Rotaru (1.0%), Andrii Shevchenko (1.0%), Leonid Brezhnev (1.0%), Nadiia Savchenko (0.9%), Serhii Korolov (0.9%), Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi (0.8%), Oleksandr Dovzhenko (0.8%), and Petro Poroshenko (0.8%).
- In total, respondents named 174 different individuals. At the same time, 16% of respondents were unable to name (recall) any outstanding Ukrainian.
Methodology
- Survey population: population of Ukraine aged 18 and over
- Sample size: 2,000 respondents
- Method: face-to-face interviews
- Margin of error (95% confidence):
- near 50%: ≤ 2.2%
- near 30%: ≤ 2%
- near 10%: ≤ 1.3%
- near 5%: ≤ 1%
- Fieldwork period: April 14 – April 24, 2015
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