Russians are aware of the national projects and consider national goals to be important; health, labor effectiveness and safety are top priority.
MOSCOW, October 22, 2020 Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presents the findings a study devoted to the attitudes of Russians towards national goals and national projects.
Russians are highly informed about the national priorities (from 56% to 85%). The most popular national projects are “Healthcare” (85%), “Education” (80%) and “Demography” (74%). Respondents are least familiar with the following projects: “Safe and high-quality roads” (63%), “Digital economy” (66%), “International cooperation and exports” (36%).
Russians consider that national goals are extremely important. The most important ones are “Preserving population; people’s health and well-being” (92%), “Decent and effective work” (87%), “Comfortable and safe living environment” (86%), opportunities for self-realization and the gifted individuals, including also Russia’s hitting the countries’ top 10 in terms of the quality of general education and scientific productivity; supporting skilled and talented children and youth; promoting volunteer activities, making cultural activities more available (81%).
Sixty percent of respondents consider digital transformation to be important; 59% prioritize entrepreneurship.
According to Russians, over the recent year government and state bodies have paid more attention to the following national projects: “Digital economy” (64%), “Safe and high-quality roads” and “Demography” (support for families with children) (54%, respectively) as well as “Housing and urban environment” (51%). Least of Russians mention “Demography” (support for older generation) (25%) and “Small and medium scale entrepreneurship” (24%).
Russian nationwide survey was conducted on September 12-18, 2020 and commissioned by the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “National Priorities”. Results are based on telephone interviews (using the CATI technique) with 1,600 Russians (2,000 for the “Education” and “Demography” national priorities) aged 18 and older. Sample is selected from the complete list of telephone numbers operating in Russia. The data were weighted according to selection probability and social and demographic characteristics. The margin of error at a 95% confidence level does not exceed 2.5%. In addition to sampling error, minor changes to the wording of questions and different circumstances arising during the fieldwork can introduce bias into the survey.
Please assess how important you think it is for your country to achieve the following national goals (closed-ended question, one answer % of total respondents) | |||||
| Important | Likely important | Likely not important | Not important | Don’t know |
Preserving population; public health and well-being | 92 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Opportunities for self-realization and supporting the gifted individuals (including Russia’s goal to hit the countries’ top ten in terms of the quality of general education and scientific efforts; supporting skilled and talented children and youth; promoting volunteering, making cultural activities more available) | 81 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Comfortable and safe living environment (including improvements in living conditions; better urban environment; improvements in environmental performance) | 86 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Decent and effective work (including stable growth in people’s income and adjusting pensions to the inflation rate) | 87 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Successful entrepreneurship (including investment growth; growth in non-resource non-energy exports; growth in the number of persons employed in small and medium-sized enterprises, including sole entrepreneurs and the self-employed) | 59 | 24 | 4 | 9 | 4 |
Digital transformation (including digital maturity in key industries and social sphere; increasing the availability of socially significant services to the general public up to 95%; broadband Internet access to 97% of households; more investment in national solutions in information technologies ) | 60 | 21 | 7 | 8 | 4 |
Do you know/ have you heard/do you hear for the first time about the implementation of the following national projects in Russia? (closed-ended question, one answer % of total respondents) | ||||
| Yes, I know about that | Yes, I have heard something | This is the first time I hear about that | Don’t know |
Healthcare | 43 | 42 | 14 | 1 |
Education | 42 | 38 | 19 | 1 |
Demography | 39 | 35 | 25 | 1 |
Environment | 36 | 44 | 19 | 1 |
Housing and urban environment | 35 | 47 | 17 | 1 |
Small and medium-sized businesses | 32 | 50 | 17 | 1 |
Culture | 31 | 44 | 24 | 1 |
Workforce productivity and employment | 31 | 43 | 26 | 0 |
Modernization and extension of transport infrastructure | 30 | 43 | 26 | 1 |
Science | 27 | 44 | 27 | 2 |
Safe and high-quality roads | 23 | 40 | 36 | 1 |
Digital economy (“Digital economy of the Russian Federation” national program) | 22 | 44 | 32 | 2 |
Supporting Russian export (“International cooperation and exports” national project) | 16 | 40 | 42 | 2 |
In your opinion, have the government and state bodies paid more/less attention to the following issues over the recent year? (closed-ended question, one answer % of total respondents) | ||||
| More attention | Equally | Less attention | Don’t know |
Digital economy of the Russian Federation | 64 | 23 | 5 | 8 |
Safe and high-quality roads | 54 | 36 | 7 | 3 |
Demography | 54 | 27 | 9 | 10 |
Housing and urban environment | 51 | 35 | 10 | 4 |
Modernization and extension of transport infrastructure | 50 | 34 | 6 | 10 |
Environment | 46 | 33 | 15 | 6 |
Healthcare | 42 | 32 | 21 | 5 |
Science | 40 | 30 | 15 | 15 |
Culture | 37 | 43 | 11 | 9 |
Education | 35 | 37 | 19 | 9 |
Small and medium-sized businesses | 30 | 28 | 24 | 18 |
International cooperation ad exports | 23 | 36 | 13 | 28 |
Workforce productivity and employment | 20 | 51 | 17 | 12 |
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