During 2007-2009, KIIS was one of the partners of the Promoting Active Citizen Engagement in Combating Corruption in Ukraine (ACTION) project implemented for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Country Program for Ukraine under financial support of USAID.

In the frameworks of the project KIIS has developed methodology for a large-scale nationwide household survey with the following peculiarities:

• sample size (n>10,000), which allows to study not only people’s perception of the corruption but also their actual experience with it;
• sample design (n=400 per oblast), developed in such a way that it provides an opportunity to analyze data not only for Ukraine as a whole, but also at the level of each separate oblast and Kyiv city;
• comparable methodology and instruments, allowing to track changes in people’s perception and experience of corruption which took place during years of monitoring.

The goal of the studies was to trace dynamics of the attitudes of the adult population in Ukraine towards the problem of corruption; citizen experiences with corruption; citizen assessments of the effectiveness of anticorruption measures taken by authorities and other anticorruption actors; and the public’s willingness to engage in anticorruption activities. Survey sample is representative for adult population (18+) of Ukraine as a whole and for each separate oblast of Ukraine covered by the survey.

The baseline survey was conducted in 2007 and a follow up survey was conducted in 2009.

Later, the survey has been repeated under support of USAID-funded projects UNITER (2011, 2015) and ENGAGE (2018, 2021, 2023, and 2024). Each survey round covered over 10,000 respondents and employed comparable instrument and methodology.

In 2023 and 2024, during a full-scale war, the main survey of 10,000 respondents among the general population covered 18/20 regions of Ukraine. In addition, 1,000 IDPs in the same regions and 2,000 of shelter seekers abroad were interviewed (using remote methods – online, messengers, etc.).

Presentation with key findings of 2024 survey are here.