In September, 70% of respondents stated that their household was rather or completely ready for possible problems with heating in winter, although only 24% of them consider themselves fully prepared, while 47% consider themselves rather ready and say that “there is still something.

As of December 2022, 74% of those surveyed by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology considered their homes ready for possible problems with heating in winter. In September, readiness was 70%, according to a study by KIIS.

So, in three months, the proportion of those who considered their homes fully prepared for problems with heating increased from 24% to 34%.. Another 40% consider themselves rather ready, but at the same time believe that there is something that needs to be done.

The share of respondents who in September considered their families unprepared for winter and problems with heating was 24%, in December it decreased to 21%.

In general, the majority of Ukrainians in each category consider themselves rather or fully prepared for possible problems..

At the same time, residents of the West, villages and small towns and more affluent respondents consider themselves better prepared..

Thus, in the regional dimension, the share of fully prepared is decreasing from 43% in the West to 26% in the East. At the same time, even in the East of Ukraine, 68% consider themselves in total rather or completely ready.

By type of settlement, the share decreases from 48% among residents of villages to 22% among residents of large cities.

The survey was conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology on December 4-27, 2022 using the method of telephone interviews using a computer based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers among 995 respondents in all regions of Ukraine. The sample did not include residents of territories that were temporarily not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities until February 24, 2022, and the survey was not conducted with citizens who went abroad after February 24, 2022. The error of such a sample does not exceed 3.4% for indicators close to 50%, 3.0% for indicators close to 25%, 2.1% for indicators close to 10%, 1.5% for indicators.

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