An unquestionably successful ACF project that we launched over the past year is the Foundation’s sociological service.
It is very important that we—the opposition in the broad sense and, really, all decent people—have gained access to high-quality, truthful sociological data collected on a regular basis.
In total, we conducted 17 surveys (including this one), most of which we published in full.
A total of 207 volunteers (118 women and 89 men) helped us, and we are enormously grateful to them. We organized volunteer training, and every second volunteer we trained comes back to make calls again. Each survey involved between 35 and 78 volunteers.
Our sociological service attracted so much attention that they even sent a spy to us!
Special thanks to the head of the sociological service, Anna Biryukova, and congratulations on bringing the project fully to life. We look forward to more achievements from Anya.
Love you all, and we’ll be waiting for everyone in January. There will be more surveys, and they’ll be more fun. Sign up here.
And now, here are the results of ACF’s last nationwide survey of the year.
It was conducted from December 18 to 25 on current topics: 1) we tried to understand how much exchange-rate fluctuations have been noticed by the general public (or whether only Twitter cares about them); 2) household indebtedness; 3) whether exchange-rate fluctuations affected practical family plans, using trips abroad as an example.
49% of citizens closely follow exchange rates:
Of course, we immediately check respondents by asking them, “So what is the exchange rate right now?” Correct answers were given by 42% for the dollar and 21% for the euro. So it is safe to say that more than 40% of Russia’s residents closely follow the ruble/dollar exchange rate.
47% of Russian residents over the age of 18 have one or more loans in their household.
18% of citizens took out a new loan to pay off a previous one.
Those who have savings keep them in rubles.
The fall of the ruble forced 17% of citizens to change or adjust their plans for trips abroad—that is, the majority of those who travel to other countries at all.
Thanks to the volunteers who took part in this survey: Lev, Sergei, Pavel, Vyacheslav, Ivan, Anna, Elena, Galina, Elena, Polina, Dmitry, Nadezhda, Anna, Artyom, Pavel, Kolya, Inga, Denis, Roman, Anya, Nikolai, Anna, Vladislav, Liza, Mikhail, Marina, Elena, Lidiya, Olga, Timur, Vera, Kristina, Viktoria, Misha, Ruslan, Darya.
Look out for more sociological research from us in the new year.
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