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In addition, 56% of respondents are convinced that events are developing in the wrong direction not only in the whole country, but also in their region, and another 51% believe that in their locality.
At the same time, 61% of young people aged from 18 to 24 and 71% of people over 55 years old are negatively disposed towards the development of events in the country.
As the most pressing problems in Ukraine, respondents named the low level of wages and pensions (37%), corruption (34%), high utility tariffs (33%), the military conflict in Donbas (31%), rising prices (25%), unemployment (24%), the coronavirus pandemic (20%), the quality of medical services and the prices of medicines (18%), the lack of professionalism of the authorities (16%), and the state of the roads (14%).
As noted, over the month, the level of public discontent regarding the problem of high tariffs fell by 6%.
At the same time, only 27% of respondents in western Ukraine face the problem of high utility tariffs.
According to sociological data, 34% of Ukrainians over the past year thought about going abroad to work or to live permanently. At the same time, 64% did not think about it, and 2% found it difficult to answer.
Among those who would like to go abroad, 65% would prefer the EU countries, 10% – the United States, and 9% – Canada. Only 4% of respondents would choose Russia and 2% – other, except for Russia, CIS countries.
The vast majority of respondents (79%) have not heard of the tax amnesty bill initiated by Zelenskiy, which provides for a one-time payment to the budget (5%) of previously non-taxable income. Some 18% of respondents answered that they had heard, but did not know the details, and only 3% were well aware of the initiative.
At the same time, 27% are sure that the president's initiative will affect only people with an average and low income, 26% believe that this proposal is unacceptable for the population and 20% found it difficult to answer.
Ukraine's accession to the European Union is supported by 59% of respondents to a survey conducted by the Razumkov Center in March 2021, while 26% are of the opposite opinion. The share of those who support EU accession exceeds the share of those who adhere to the opposite point of view in the west (84% and 8.5%, respectively) and in the center of the country (63% and 19%, respectively). In the east, there are slightly more of those who believe that there is no need to join (38.5% and 46%, respectively), and in the south, the shares of the former and the latter do not differ statistically significantly (41.5% and 42%, respectively).
60% of companies have positive expectations for 2021, expecting revenues to go up. Over 30% of businesses plan to hire new employees, and 39% plan to increase investments. With the uncertainties over public health and transportation, 82% have switched to hybrid work, a combination of remote and office-based work. Looking back, 56% of respondents said that last year their companies kept the number of employees, 24% hired new employees, 20% cut employees.
12 UKRAINE Country Report April 2021 www.intellinews.com