During May 26-June 1, 2024, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) conducted its own all-Ukrainian public opinion survey "Omnibus", to which questions about LGBT people in Ukraine and their rights were added at the request of the NGO "Nash svit". By the method of computer-assisted telephone interviews(CATI) based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers (with random generation of phone numbers and subsequent statistical weighting), 1,067 respondents living in all regions of Ukraine (territory under the control of the Government of Ukraine) were interviewed. The survey was conducted with adult (aged 18 and older) citizens of Ukraine who, at the time of the survey, lived on the territory of Ukraine controlled by the Government of Ukraine. The sample did not include residents of territories that are temporarily not controlled by the authorities of Ukraine (at the same time, out of 2,011 respondents 42 before February  24, 2022, lived in the territory that is currently occupied), and the survey was not conducted with citizens who went abroad after February 24, 2022.

Formally, under normal circumstances, the statistical error of such a sample (with a probability of 0.95 and taking into account the design effect of 1.1) did not exceed 2.4% for indicators close to 50%, 2.1% for indicators close to 25%, 1.5% - for indicators close to 10%, 1.1% - for indicators close to 5%.

Under conditions of war, in addition to the specified formal error, a certain systematic deviation is added. Factors that can affect the quality of results in "wartime" conditions were previously cited by KIIS.

In general, we believe that the obtained results are still highly representative and allow a fairly reliable analysis of the public moods of the population.

You can read the full report in Ukrainian at this link. Below are the main results of the survey (prepared by specialists of the NGO "Nash Svit").

ATTITUDE OF UKRAINIAN SOCIETY TOWARDS LGBTQ PEOPLE CONTINUES TO IMPROVE

For the third year in a row, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, commissioned by Nash Svit Center, conducts a survey on the attitude of Ukrainian society to LGBTQ issues, and this year's results again demonstrate that it is slowly but consistently improving.

In general, taking into account the statistical error, the indicators of 2024 compared to the previous 2023 and 2024 have changed insignificantly. The number of respondents who have a positive attitude towards LGBT people has slightly decreased due to an increase in the share of those who have a neutral attitude towards LGBT people. Similarly, the share of those who have a negative attitude towards LGBT people has decreased, and those who cannot decide on their position have increased.

The number of Ukrainians who believe that LGBT people should have the same rights as the rest of Ukrainian citizens is definitely growing: in 2024, those constituted 70.4% that is 3.1% more than in 2023 and by 6.7% more than in 2022.

As for the rights of same-sex couples, 28.7% of respondents support the introduction of registered civil partnership for them, provided for by Bill 9103, 25.6% are indifferent to this, and 35.7% are against this. Thus, more than a half of Ukrainians have no objections to this. If two years ago the gap between those who support civil partnership for same-sex couples and those who oppose was 18.3% in favor of the latter, then in 2024 it decreased to 7%.

As in previous years, the vast majority of respondents (68.3%) have a positive attitude to the participation of LGBT people in defending our state against Russian aggression, and the share of those who had a negative attitude to this decreased to 7.1%.

Traditionally for surveys on LGBTQ issues, women and young people demonstrated a more positive attitude. In particular, regarding the introduction of civil partnership for same-sex couples, among women the share of positive responses (32.3%) is almost equal to the number of negative responses (32.4%). Among young people aged 18-29, the level of support for civil partnership (37.3%) already significantly exceeds the negative attitude (24.9%), and similar results were obtained for people aged 30-39: 37.5% against 33 .2%, respectively.