Survey: 59% of Ukrainians see positive shifts in fight against corruption
A third of Ukrainians are confident that the latest news about the detention and arrest of bribe-takers speaks of hopeless corruption and the lack of any changes.
However, over half of the citizens believe that Ukraine is trying to overcome corruption and see positive developments, Rubryka reports, referring to the results of the survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS)
As KIIS sociologists noted, the majority of Ukrainians — 59% — believe that there are indeed attempts to fight corruption and positive shifts in Ukraine.
"However, a significant share of respondents chose the answer option that the latest cases are evidence of 'hopeless corruption of Ukraine, and there are no positive changes' (34%)," the KIIS reported.
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Experts stressed that they had not asked questions this way before, so it was difficult to unequivocally evaluate the dynamics of moods.
At the same time, it is reported that in the winter of 2022-2023, KIIS conducted a survey on the state of corruption. Then, one of the questions was, "How effectively do you think the authorities of Ukraine are fighting corruption?"
"If in 2018, 25% answered 'rather effectively,' then in the winter of 2022-2023, it's 50%," sociologists said. "We can cautiously assume that now the opinions of Ukrainians regarding the fight against corruption are more optimistic than they were before the large-scale invasion, and compared to, which was before the Revolution of Dignity in [2014]."
From the West to the East, fewer people believe that there are really attempts to fight corruption in Ukraine. However, at the same time, in other regions, except for the East, more people assess the situation positively.
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In the West, 65% believe that there is a fight against corruption, and 32%, on the contrary, consider Ukraine to be "hopelessly corrupt."
In the Center, the ratio is 60% against 34%; in the South, it's already 53% against 40%.
In the East, slightly more people have a negative assessment of the situation — 49% against 45% who believe that there is a fight against corruption.
KIIS also noticed the correlation between the readiness for territorial concessions to Russia and how the fight against corruption in Ukraine is assessed. 25% of those who negatively assessed the situation with corruption are ready for territorial concessions, while only 4% of people who see positive developments are prepared for submissions.
At the same time, even among those who are critical of the corruption situation, the vast majority (66%) oppose territorial concessions. Among those who positively assess the situation, 88% are against concessions.
The research took place from September 29 to October 9. 1,010 respondents living in all regions of Ukraine (except the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) were interviewed using the method of telephone interviews based on a random sample of mobile numbers. The survey was conducted with adults (aged 18 and older) citizens of Ukraine who, at the time of the survey, lived on the territory of Ukraine (within the boundaries controlled by the Ukrainian authorities until February 24, 2022).
Formally, under normal circumstances, the statistical error of such a sample (with a probability of 0.95 and taking into account the design effect of 1.1) did not exceed 3.4% for indicators close to 50%, 3% for indicators close to 25%, 2, 1% — for indicators close to 10%, 1.5% — for indicators close to 5%. Under conditions of war, a certain systematic deviation is added to the specified formal error.
Rubryka reported that for the first time in Ukraine, a court has decided to reward a corruption whistleblower, which will amount to 13 million 299 thousand 950 hryvnias.
