Two-thirds of Russians support the idea of holding the 2018 World Cup in Russia, though only half of Russians were aware that Russia attended the World Cup host competition.
MOSCOW, December 10, 2010. Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VCOM) presents the data concerning the attitudes of Russians towards the idea to hold the Football World Cup 2018 in Russia, and how many Russians were aware of the application to host the event.
Two-thirds of Russians support the idea to hold the 2018 World Cup in Russia (62%). The number of such respondents has increased from 57 to 62% since September. Only 12 perceive the idea negatively.
Most of those who liked the idea are Southerners (79%), 18-24-year-old respondents (74%), and Russians with high level of education (69%), Internet users (69-70%) and Russians with high level of income (67%).
In spite the fact that Russians basically approve of the idea to hold the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the level of awareness of Russians about Russia`s World Cup bid looks different. Only 51% of Russians knew that Russia took part in the Football World Cup host competition, whereas the other half first heard about that (49%). At the same time, the number of those who knew about that has increased, compared to August (from 48 to 51%).
Highly informed about Russia`s bid were southerners and residents of the Northern Caucasus of Russia (57%), Muscovites and St.Petersburgians (56%), 18-24-year-old Russians (59%), highly-educated respondents (58%), and active internet users (59%). On the contrary, far-easterners (71%), elderly persons (57%), low-educated Russians (63%) and those who do not use the Internet (55%) did not know anything about that.
The initiative Russian opinion polls were conducted in November, 2010. 1600 respondents were interviewed at 138 sampling points in 46 regions of Russia. The margin of errordoes not exceed 3.4%.
Do you personally support the idea to hold the 2018 World Cup in Russia? (close-ended question, one answer) | |||
| August | September | November |
Rather support | 57 | 57 | 62 |
Rather not support | 16 | 14 | 12 |
Hard to tell | 27 | 29 | 25 |
Do you personally support the idea to hold the World Cup 2010 in Russia? (close-ended question, one answer) | ||||||
| Total respondents | Age | ||||
18-24 | 25-34 | 35-44 | 45-59 | 60 and above | ||
Rather support | 62 | 74 | 65 | 67 | 62 | 49 |
Rather not support | 12 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 12 |
Hard to tell | 25 | 17 | 24 | 20 | 24 | 39 |
Did you personally hear that Russia attended in the World Cup host competition? (close-ended question, ne answer) | |||
| August | September | November |
Yes, I heard | 48 | 51 | 51 |
No, I did not hear | 52 | 49 | 49 |
Did you personally hear that Russia attended in the 2018 World Cup competition? (close-ended question, ne answer) | |||||||||
| Total respondents | Federal Districts* | |||||||
CFD | NWFD | SFD | VFD | UFD | SFD | FEFD | NCFD | ||
Yes, I heard | 51 | 50 | 53 | 57 | 50 | 51 | 53 | 29 | 57 |
No, I did not hear | 49 | 50 | 47 | 43 | 50 | 49 | 47 | 71 | 43 |
*CFD - Central Federal District
NWFD - North-Western Federal District
SFD - Southern Federal District
PFD - Volga Federal District
UFD - Urals Federal District
SFD - Siberian Federal District
FEFD - Far-Eastern Federal District
NCFD - North Caucasus Federal District
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