Rating Group and Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine officially launch ISSP Ukraine!

In 2025, Ukraine became the 45th participating country of the ISSP (International Social Survey Programme). It is one of the oldest and largest sociology programs in the world. Rating Group and Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine are the official representatives of Ukraine in ISSP. Funding, collection and analysis of data is carried out by Rating Group, and scientific support is provided by the Institute of Sociology. Also, for the first time, a special site has been opened for Ukrainian researchers: ISSP Ukraine.

In the spring of 2025, we implemented the first research module “Digital Societies”, and here on December 4, ISSP representatives officially confirmed:

Rating Group data meets international quality standards and will be published within ISSP - ISSP Methodology Committee

Also, the ISSP team recognized our experimental author's methodology for data collection and gave the green light to the implementation of the second module - “Work Orientations”, which we plan to complete in the first half of 2026.

The leader and coordinator of the project from Rating Group is Yevhen Krotevych, Head of the Department of Analytics (Department of Experimental Research). We owe Yevhen the success of this project — from the ambitious initiative of representing Ukraine in the ISSP community, organizing data collection and preparation to communication with the ISSP Methodology Committee on approval of the Rating Group methodology.

About the special technique

The Rating Group proposed to the ISSP Methodology Committee an experimental application of the combined approach of CATI and CAWI for the survey on the module “Digital Societies” in Ukraine.

A feature of the proposed methodology is the division of the survey into two stages: CATI and CAWI.

On CATI stage, the survey begins with the generation of a random phone number to contact a potential respondent. After establishing the contact, the operators introduce the respondent to the topic of the survey, ask a few socio-demographic questions, and also ask their consent to participate in the second stage — the CAWI survey. Next, two scenarios are possible:

1. Respondents who do not have a smartphone or do not use the Internet are offered to take the survey by phone. In case of consent, the interviewer continues the survey within CATI.
2. Respondents who have a smartphone and agreed to take the survey online receive an SMS or a message in the messenger with an individual link to the survey on the online platform Rating Online. Switching to the link opens access to the CAWI stage (self-filling of the questionnaire at a convenient time for the respondent and in any place).

This allows to ensure random selection of respondents and comfortable participation in the survey.

When will it be possible to use the dataset?

The "Digital Societies" module data array should be publicly available in spring 2026 (preliminary). It can be used by all willing researchers, students, teachers and other interested parties.

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Rating Group thanks the project coordinators from the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for their cooperation Olena Symonchuk (Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Head of the Department of Social Structures) and Svitlana Oksamytna (Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Leading Researcher of the Department of Social Structures of the National Academy of Sciences)!

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On the related note: November 21, the ISSP Ukraine team previewed presented the first results of ISSP 2024 in Ukraine and announced the launch of the project website.