In Ukraine, there are many unknown and unregistered polling firms. They can suddenly establish and then disappear, be influenced by certain politicians, manipulate questions and the sample. These pseudo-organizations make up opinion polls in the interests of certain
politicians and parties, especially
Viktor Medvedchuk and
OPZZh. There is a whole database
Sellers of ratings of the independent edition
Texty, which includes 119 organizations and 220 individuals who have been spotted in the publication of dubious opinion polls or in the hidden PR of politicians. For each of them there is a certificate and history of their activities. There are also separately published the names of real companies with a positive reputation. An important criterion of professional organization is membership in the Sociological Association of Ukraine (SAU). As of January 2022, the following organizations are accredited members of the SAU: • Oleksandr Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute for Social Research • Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University • East Ukrainian Foundation for Social Research •
Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) •
GfK Ukraine •
Oleksandr Razumkov Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies (Razumkov Centre) •
Kantar Ukraine •
SOCIS Center for Social and Marketing Research (SOCIS) •
Rating Group Ukraine (Rating) • FAMA Sociological Agency • Social Monitoring Center (SMC) In 2018, GfK Ukraine employees founded a new company – Info Sapiens. Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation (DIF) also publishes objective data, but it is not a polling firm in the classical sense, but acts as a mediator between the public and polling firms. ==
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