PROBLEM BACKGROUND: FIRST SIX MONTHS OF NEW PRESIDENT: VCIOM: Russia Public Opinion Research Center

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PROBLEM BACKGROUND: FIRST SIX MONTHS OF NEW PRESIDENT

Over six months since the election of a new president, the most important problems for Russians have become pension provision and situation in the housing and utilities sector.

16.11.2012

IN BRIEF

Housing problem, low living standards, drug and alcohol addiction are problems Russians are concerned most; Over half a year Russians have put more attention to the questions concerning the pension provision and the situation in the housing sector.

Over six months since the election of a new president, the most important problems for Russians have become pension provision and situation in the housing and utilities sector. And vice versa, Russians are less concerned about such problems as crime, corruption and unemployment.

MOSCOW, November 16, 2012. Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presents the data concerning the problems that Russians are most concerned about according to the opinion poll conducted in October.

According to Russians interviewed in October, the main problem for the country is the situation in the housing and utilities sector (57%), followed by low living standards (51%), alcohol and drug addiction (50%), inflation (48%), and high corruption and inflation rates (44%).

Top ten problems also involve situation in health care system (41%), unemployment (39%), pension provision (37%), problems of youth (30%), and crime (29%).

Rarer Russians are concerned about economic crisis (16%), world terrorism (15%), demographic situation (14%), situation in the army (11%), problem of democracy and human rights (10%), and delay in payment of salaries (7%).

The problems that have aggravated most since a new president was elected are pension provision (from 30% in March to 37% in October) and housing and utilities services (from 54 to 57%). At the same time, Russians are less concerned about crime (from 36 to 29%), corruption and bureaucracy (from 50 to 44%), problems of youth (from 36 to 30%), and unemployment (from 43 to 39%).

The initiative Russian opinion polls were conducted on October 27-28, 2012. 1600 respondents were interviewed at 138 sampling points in 46 regions of Russia. The margin of error does not exceed 3.4%.

In your opinion, which of the following problems are the most important for Russia today? ( close-ended question, not more than 7 answers)
	Х 2011	I 2012	II 2012	III 2012	IV 2012	V 2012	VI 2012	VII 2012	VIII 2012	IХ 2012	Х 2012
Situation in housing and utilities sector	56	58	59	54	49	49	52	53	56	55	57
Low living standards	53	51	51	53	50	50	48	49	48	47	51
Alcohol and drug addiction	46	44	47	52	52	49	49	50	48	48	50
Inflation, increase of prices for goods and services	49	49	52	49	44	44	46	50	52	50	48
Corruption and bureaucracy	41	43	47	50	47	45	43	42	47	48	44
Situation in health care system	40	49	45	43	43	41	40	37	41	41	41
Unemployment	47	41	37	43	46	39	41	40	38	36	39
Pension provision	37	31	30	27	33	32	33	34	33	36	37
Problems of youth	32	33	36	36	32	35	31	35	35	30	30
Crime	27	27	26	36	33	27	28	29	28	30	29
State of morality and ethics	21	23	27	23	26	25	24	26	26	26	25
Situation in education	23	24	25	22	23	25	27	25	24	23	24
Influence of oligarchs on the economic and political life in the country	20	22	24	21	21	22	20	21	18	21	22
Ecology and environment	18	18	20	23	25	25	23	25	22	20	20
Economy (economic crisis)	23	22	22	17	18	19	19	18	20	19	16
Terrorism	17	13	12	16	19	15	15	16	15	15	15
Demographic situation	14	13	17	13	12	13	13	16	17	16	14
Situation in the army	16	11	16	14	13	12	11	15	12	14	11
Democracy and human rights	9	11	12	9	11	11	9	14	9	11	10
Delays in payment of salaries	11	11	11	10	12	11	9	12	9	9	7
Hard to tell	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1

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