MOSCOW,September4, 2009.Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presents the information about where Russians would like their children to live - in Moscow, St. Petersburg or other cities or rural area, and where they think their children have more opportunities - in metropolitan areas or other regions.
The popularity of living in a small city or rural area is growing.More Russians would like their children to live in small cities (26% versus 20% in 2006). Other 17% prefer metropolitan areas, except for Moscow and St. Petersburg (the amount of them has decreased over the recent three years from 20%). Sixteen percent are in favor of living in metropolitan area (in 2006 - 19%). St.Petersburg rarer attracts our fellow citizens: only 9% of them want their children to live there. Rural area is getting increasingly popular (from 6% in 2006 to 12% this year). Other 9% prefer living abroad.
As a rule, Russians would like their children to be residents of the same size localities as they live.Thus, Muscovites and St. Petersburgians want their children to live in the same cities (54% and 18% respectively), residents of big cities - in big cities (34%), residents of middle-sized and small cities - in small cities (34-35%), and rural area residents - in rural area communities and small towns (26% and 25% respectively).
Those who want their children to reside in metropolitan area are basically residents of the Central District of Russia (37%) and Russians with high level of income (21%). Saint-Petersburg is attracted by respondents living in North-Western District of Russia (32%). Other cities are chosen by residents of the Urals (28%), Siberia (24%) and Volga District (23%). Those who prefer small towns are Far-Eastern inhabitants (37%); respondents from the Volga District and Siberia, as well as Russians with low level of income (17%) are in favor of rural area (17% and 16% respectively). Living abroad is reported by Far-Eastern residents (19%) and North-Western Federal District (15%).
The higher the level of education of Russians is, the more often they want their children to be residents of Moscow (24% of high-educated Russians versus 6% of low-educated ones) and Saint-Petersburg (11% versus 5% respectively). On the contrary, the lower the level of education is, the more often our fellow citizens are attracted by living in a small town (38% respondents with elementary education versus 23% of high-educated respondents) or rural area (25% versus 7% respectively).
The initiative Russian opinion polls were conducted on August 29-30, 2009.
1600 respondents were interviewed at 140 sampling points in 42 regions of Russia.
The margin of error does not exceed 3.4%.
2006 | 2008 | 2009 | |
Moscow | 19 | 17 | 16 |
Saint-Petersburg | 11 | 10 | 9 |
Other big city (except for Moscow and St. Petersburg) | 23 | 18 | 17 |
Small city | 20 | 25 | 26 |
Rural area | 6 | 8 | 12 |
Abroad | 11 | 10 | 9 |
Hard to tell | 11 | 12 | 9 |
Total respondents | Type of settlement | |||||
Moscowand St.Petersburg | More than500thousand | 100-500thousand | Less than100thousand | rural area | ||
Moscow | 16 | 54 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 |
Saint-Petersburg | 9 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 |
Other big city (except for Moscow and St. Petersburg) | 17 | 9 | 32 | 15 | 16 | 13 |
Small city | 26 | 4 | 19 | 35 | 34 | 26 |
Rural area | 12 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 25 |
Abroad | 9 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 8 |
Hard to tell | 9 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 9 |
Total respondents | Federal Districts* | |||||||
CFD | NWFD | SFD | PFD | UFD | SFD | DFD | ||
Moscow | 16 | 37 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 10 |
Saint-Petersburg | 9 | 5 | 32 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 3 |
Other big city (except for Moscow and St. Petersburg) | 17 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 28 | 24 | 11 |
Small city | 26 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 24 | 23 | 29 | 37 |
Rural area | 12 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 16 | 3 |
Abroad | 9 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 19 |
Hard to tell | 9 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 18 |
*Abbreviations
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
DFD - Far-Eastern Federal District
Total respondents | Education | ||||
Elementary, or lower, incomplete secondary education | Secondary(school, technical college) | Secondary special (college) | Incomplete higher (not less than 3 years), higher | ||
Moscow | 16 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 24 |
Saint-Petersburg | 9 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 11 |
Other big city (except for Moscow and St. Petersburg) | 17 | 14 | 17 | 18 | 17 |
Small city | 26 | 38 | 24 | 27 | 23 |
Rural area | 12 | 25 | 16 | 9 | 7 |
Abroad | 9 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 11 |
Hard to tell | 9 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 7 |
Total respondents | Financial self-assessment | |||
Very good, good | Average | Very bad, bad | ||
Moscow | 16 | 21 | 17 | 13 |
Saint-Petersburg | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
Other big city (except for Moscow and St. Petersburg) | 17 | 19 | 18 | 15 |
Small city | 26 | 27 | 25 | 27 |
Rural area | 12 | 8 | 11 | 17 |
Abroad | 9 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
Hard to tell | 9 | 7 | 10 | 9 |
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