According to a survey conducted by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation. Ilka Kucheriva and Kiev International Institute of Sociology, 61% of Ukrainians did not feel any changes in connection with the ongoing decentralization reform.

43% of respondents support the steps taken by the authorities regarding the decentralization reform, 22% are negative about the actions of the authorities, 10.4% found it difficult to answer, and 24.9% said they knew nothing about it.

At the same time, 60.8% of respondents did not feel any changes due to decentralization, 18.2% said about changes for the better, 13.9% felt only changes for the worse.

Among those who noticed changes for the better, respondents pointed to improvements in the state of improvement and sanitation in the local area (45.6%), housing and communal services (21.6%), public transport (20.6%), leisure (17.7%), law enforcement (13.3%).

Among those who saw only changes for the worse, respondents named negative changes in the sphere of medical services (42.8%), reduced care for socially vulnerable groups (35.3%), provision of jobs (27.7%), work Housing and communal services (24.9%). This is reported by mResearcher. com.