Opinion Survey On The Prospects Of The Crimea De-Occupation And Attitude To The “Minsk Agreements”

The survey was ordered by the 1+1 TV Chanel and conducted by "SOCIS" on March 18-21, 2016. The results on the prospects of de-occupation of Crimea and the attitudes to the Minsk agreements are published as part of the joint study of public opinion regarding the Crimea and Donbas by the Maidan of Foreign Affairs and 1+1 TV Chanel.

Polled 1,486 respondents aged 18 years and older. The sample is representative of the population of Ukraine by age, sex, size of settlement and region of residence (according to the State Service statistics aggregated Ukraine as of 01.01.2015).

The survey method is personal interview at the respondents' homes with the use tablets (Computer Assisted Personal Interview, CAPI). The maximum sampling error does not exceed 2.6%.

The survey applies the following regional distinction:

- Kyiv;- East region (Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhya regions and unoccupied territory Donetsk and Lugansk regions);- South region (Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions);- West region (Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky and Chernivtsi regions);- North region (Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions);- Central region (Vinnitsa, Kirovograd, Poltava and Cherkasy regions).

Below ia the survey analysis by the Maidan of Foreign Affairs experts.

Experts
Andrii Klymenko

Andrii Klymenko

Chair of the Supervisory Board of the MFA, ​Crimea studies expert, ​Editor-in-chief of the http://www.blackseanews.net/ Publications
Bohdan Yaremenko

Bohdan Yaremenko

MFA founder, foreign policy and security expert Publications
Oleh Belokolos

Oleh Belokolos

Chairman of the Board, foreign policy and security expert Publications
Alexander Khara

Alexander Khara

Foreign policy and security expert, ​Deputy Chair of the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies Publications
Oleksii Kuropiatnyk

Oleksii Kuropiatnyk

Foreign policy and security expert Publications
Olga Korbut

Olga Korbut

Temporarily occupied territories studies ​analyst​ Publications
Tatyana Guchakova

Tatyana Guchakova

Temporarily occupied territories studies expert Publications
Yurii Smelyanski

Yurii Smelyanski

Economics and temporarily occupied territories studies expert, Chair of the Executive Board of the ​Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies Publications