Russians are not willing to take care about their pensions and consider that it is the government`s responsibility to do that.
MOSCOW, January 20, 2014. Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presents the data concerning whether Russians follow the changes in the pension reforming, and how they perceive the obligation to make pension contributions.
More than half of Russians (60%) follow the changes to the pension reforms; at the same time, 17% of respondents do that regularly, and 43% do that from time to tome. The share of those who are not interested in that is 39%. Those who try to be informed about the pension reforms are middle-aged Russians (68% among 35-44-year-old respondents and 73% among 45-59-year-old ones), residents of average cities (68%) and respondents with high level of income (71%).
According to most of Russians, pension contributions should be compulsory (66%). Forty-eight percent of them believe that it is the government`s responsibility to take care about the pensions savings because many people start thinking about the retirement too late (in 2012 , 39% of respondents). Eighteen percent of Russians believe that employee should discuss the pension schemes with the employer. Every fourth respondent (24%) believe that people should decide to make pension savings or not by themselves (in 2012, 33%).
The VCIOM opinion poll was conducted on October 12-13, 2013. 1600 respondents were interviewed in 130 communities in 42 regions of Russia. The margin of error does not exceed 3.4%.
Do you try to be informed about the changes to the pension reforms in Russia? | ||||||
| Total respondents | Aged 18-24 | Aged 25-34 | Aged 35-44 | Aged 45-59 | Aged 60 and over |
Yes, constantly | 17 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 21 | 20 |
Yes, from time to time | 43 | 32 | 48 | 51 | 52 | 28 |
No, I have no interest in it | 39 | 56 | 41 | 32 | 27 | 51 |
Don`t know | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Some people believe that pension savings must be free-will. Others say that the pension contributions must be obligatory for any employer and controlled by the state. And others again believe that everyone should be obliged to make pension savings, but how this should be done must be decided by the employer and the employee. What point of view do you support? (closed –ended question) | ||
| 2012 | 2013 |
Pension savings must be freewill. It is the employee who knows well what he/she is going to do upon retirement, and how to allocate financial resources during the working age | 33 | 24 |
It is the government`s responsibility to manage pension savings and pension schemes. People start thinking about the retirement too late, where there is no opportunity to save. | 39 | 48 |
The government should provide citizens with the opportunity to make pension savings. But it is the responsibility of the employee and the employer to decide how to manage pension savings | 19 | 18 |
Don`t know | 9 | 10 |
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