<h3>Asessment of ukrainians of the law ‘on state language policy</h3>
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</p><div style="text-align:justify">During the period of 9 – 14
August 2012 Research & Branding Group company conducted a public
opinion survey to study the attitude of Ukrainians to the law ‘On State
Language Policy’. Data was gathered with face-to-face interview method
in 24 regions of Ukraine and Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Respondents
were selected by quota sampling, which represented adult population of
the country by place of residence (region), sex and age. Sample size was
composed of 3117 respondents. Predicted average sampling error is
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<div style="text-align:center"><b>Main results </b></div>
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Currently the vast majority of surveyed Ukrainians (77%) knows that on
August, 8th Predident of Ukraine signed the law ‘On State Language
Policy’, and only 20% of Ukrainians do not know about the signing of
aforementioned document. </div>
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<div style="text-align:center">PUBLIC AWARENESS ON THE LAW ‘ON STATE LANGUAGE POLICY’ </div>
<div style="text-align:center">% to surveyed </div>
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Ukrainians has ambivalent attitudes towards this law: 36% of respondent
has positive attitude and 35% of surveyed Ukrainians has negative
attitude towards this law, and 24% took a neutral stance. </div>
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<div style="text-align:center"> ATTITUTE OF UKRAINIANS TO THE LAW % to surveyed </div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#ff0000"></font> By far
Ukrainians do not have unified opinion on the degree of the importance
of enactment of the law, which aim is to deal with the language issues.
38% of respondents consider that enactment of this law as important in
general, and 34% of Ukrainians considers oppositely. 21% of Ukrainians
got a neutral position towards assessment of this law. </div>
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<div style="text-align:center"> ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE UKRAINIAN LAW "ON THE BASIS OF LANGUAGE POLICY" TO ADDRESS THE LANGUAGE ISSUES IN UKRAINE </div>
<div style="text-align:center">% to surveyed </div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#ff0000"></font> 45% of
respondents believe that this law does not threaten Ukrainian language,
for 19% it was difficult to answer, and 35% thinks the opposite. </div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#ff0000"></font> 37% of
respondents agreed that the law would contribute to the national
compromise in Ukraine, for 32% it was difficult to answer, and 31% - do
not agree with the statement.</div>
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<h3>Files</h3>
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<span>Press-release</span></a></li></ul><p><a href="http://www.rb.com.ua/eng/projects/omnibus/8556/">http://www.rb.com.ua/eng/projects/omnibus/8556/</a><br></p>
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