Main results:

• Almost whole population of the city knows about the urge to rename the city. Vast majority of them do not support this initiative.
• Amongst the possible variants of the city name most people vote for “Kirovohrad”.
• If there were no such option as “Kirovohrad” in the list of variants, most citizens (55%) would vote for “Yelysavetgrad”. Option “Kropyvnytskyi” would be chose by 8%.
• If people had to choose between “Yelysavetgrad” and “Kropyvnytskyi”, 68% would choose “Yelysavetgrad”, 13% - “Kropyvnytskyi”.
• Vast majority of the population (82%) do not agree with the recommendation of the Comittee of Verkhovna Rada on State Construction, Regional Policy and Local Self-Government to rename Kirovohrad to Kropyvnytskyi. Quarter of the people who are against this proposition are ready to participate in the protest action.

On April 3-11, 2016 Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) together with Sociological group “Rating” on the request of non-governmental organization “Kirovohradske zemlyatstvo” conducted public opinion poll in the city of Kirovohrad. With the 3-stage stochastic sample with quota selection on the last stage 1000 respondents were personally interviewed. The sample is representative for the population of Kirovohrad aged 18 and above.

Statistical sample error (with probability 0.95 and without design-effect) does not exceed: 3.1% for indicators close to 50%, 2.7% - for indicators close to 25%, 2.0% - for indicators close to 12%, 1.4% - for indicators close to 5%.

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