The Costs of Peace survey of local residents and internally displaced persons living in three cities of Ukraine was carried out by Kiev International Institute of Sociology from June 3, 2022 till August 9, 2022. The survey fieldwork stage lasted from 3-25 July, 2022.
The stages of the survey included translation of the questionnaire and preparing of accompanying tooling, conducting pretest, selecting and training interviewers, conducting field stage, control of interviewers’ work, data proceeding and logical control. The data collection method was face-to-face personal interviews with tablets (CAPI). The sample developed for the study includes local residents and IDPs from three Ukrainian cities – Dnipro, Poltava and Zaporizhzhia.
The composition of the sample is summarized in the following table:
To select local residents, electoral precincts were used as PSU. Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) sampling method was utilized in the random selection of electoral precincts. Random systematic selection of households and respondents was used at the final stage. The survey of local residents was carried out in 90 sampling points (electoral precincts).
To select IDPs, a time-location sample (TLS) and snowball technique were used. The survey of IDPs was carried out in 160 sampling point. Of these, 14% were interviewed at 53 electoral precincts, where the survey of local residents takes place, and 84% were interviewed at 107 specialized locations and 2% respondents were interviewed using the «snowball selection» technique, when additional personal contacts were provided by the interviewed IDPs.
Pretest was held during June 21–24, 2022 to test the tooling. 1812 complete interviews were carried out during field stage. In this survey 100% of questionnaires and interviewer’s date books were revised by KIIS staff and 20% of interviews were controlled by recontact, including the control of the fact and quality of conducting of interview with certain respondent.
Coding was conducted by two qualified specialists at KIIS. Coding included checking the correctness of filling up the questionnaires. To check the data input 135 logical conditions were incorporated in CAPI form of questionnaire. The final data file consists of 1812 questionnaires. Response rate for local resident’s survey is 13%. Comparison of demographic data with external sources shows a fairly accurate match. In accordance with KIIS estimation the sampling error does not exceed 5.6% per sampling group in the context of cities and local residents/IDPs.
Watch a presentation of this study at the Wilson Center titled “Ukrainian Attitudes of War and Peace: Complex Dilemmas of Wartime“
Publications
Gerard Toal and Korostelina, K.V. What would be an acceptable peace in Ukraine? We asked Ukrainians, and they told us, Salon, September 19, 2022, https://www.salon.com/2022/09/17/what-would-be-an-acceptable-peace-in-ukraine-we-asked-ukrainians-and-they-told-us_partner/
Korostelina, K.V. and Gerard Toal. La guerre de la Russie contre les civils ukrainiens, Le GrandContinent, September 19, 2022, https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2022/09/19/la-guerre-de-la-russie-contre-les-civils-ukrainiens/
Korostelina, K.V. and Gerard Toal. La guerra de Rusia contra los civiles ucranianos, Le GrandContinent, September 19, 2022, https://legrandcontinent.eu/es/2022/09/19/la-guerra-de-rusia-contra-los-civiles-ucranianos/
Gerard Toal and Korostelina, K.V. We asked Ukrainians living on the front lines what was an acceptable peace – here’s what they told us, The Conversation, September 15, 2022, https://theconversation.com/we-asked-ukrainians-living-on-the-front-lines-what-was-an-acceptable-peace-heres-what-they-told-us-190397
Korostelina, K.V. and Gerard Toal. Do Ukrainians want a ceasefire?, Monkey Cage, Washington Post, August 30, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/30/ukraine-survey-ceasefire-war/
Gerard Toal and Korostelina, K.V. Ukrainians want war crime reparations and investigations, new survey shows, Open Democracy, 21 September 2022, https://www.mrspl.org/event/war-ukraine-professor-karina-korostelina