Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

The Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IS NASU), founded in 1990, is the leading academic institution in the field of sociology in Ukraine, conducting fundamental theoretical and empirical research and providing postgraduate education.

Among the Institute’s priority research areas are: studies on sociological theory and methodology; state and dynamics of the social structure and social inequality in Ukraine and worldwide; trends in social stratification and mobility; civil society development in Ukraine; sociopolitical, economic, cultural and religious attitudes and practices of different strata of the population; social aspects of digitalization; dynamics of the population’s social well-being.

During the period from 1990 to 2019, the Institute’s primary research focus centred on the social ramifications of the Chornobyl disaster and various aspects of post-Soviet transformations. However, as of the early 2020s, the Institute has been concentrating on the study of the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the full-scale Russо-Ukrainian war.

The Institute conducts national projects, the most significant of which is Ukrainian Society: Monitoring Social Changes (1992–2024), and also participates in international comparative projects, in particular, the European Social Survey (2005–2013, 2022–2024) and the International Social Survey Programme (2008, 2009, 2019).

Rating Group

Rating Group was founded in 2008 in Ukraine as a non-governmental and independent research organization with specialization in all types of sociological research. The company is a member of ESOMAR, WAPOR, ISA, and the Sociological Association of Ukraine.

Rating Lab, an analytical research institution within Rating Group, was founded in 2021. In 2022, Rating Group was supplemented by its proprietary online survey platform Rating Online. Rating Group also has a proprietary call center with a capacity of 140 lines.

Each year, Rating Group conducts up to 300,000 interviews, focusing on a wide range of research topics, covering the studies of children, humanitarian issues, and socio-political monitoring projects. Rating Group has vast experience in providing research and consulting for international organizations and projects working in Ukraine and in the region, such as UNICEF, USAID, World Health Organization (WHO), UNESCO, the International Republican Institute, the World Bank, Chemonics International, DAI, universities of the USA (University of Michigan, Georgetown, University of San Diego, Yale, etc.), Poland, Denmark, Switzerland, and others.

Rating Group boasts substantial experience in conducting research through a diverse range of methods, utilizing both individual methods and their combinations. These include:

• CAPI (Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews or face-to-face personal interviews)
• CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviews)
• CAWI (Online Survey, Computer-Assisted Web Interview)
• CATI > CAWI (A two-stage combination of CATI and CAWI, where CATI on the first
• stage is used to randomly select and recruit the respondent, and, on the second stage,
• CAWI is used to provide them with a convenient way to fill in the questionnaire)
• Expert and in-depth interviews
• Focus group discussions