Левада-Центр : RESPONSIBILITY AND INFLUENCE

This survey was conducted September 25–30, 2020, among a representative sample of all Russian urban and rural residents. The sample was comprised of 1605 people aged 18 or older in 137 municipalities of 50 regions of the Russian Federation. The survey was conducted as a personal interview in respondents’ homes. The answer distribution is presented as percentages of the total number of participants along with data from previous surveys.

The statistical error of these studies for a sample of 1600 people (with a probability of 0.95) does not exceed:

3.4% for indicators around 50%
2.9% for indicators around 25%/75%
2.0% for indicators around 10%/90%
1.5% for indicators around 5%/95%

The questions in this survey asked respondents to agree or disagree on a scale of “1” (“Fully”) to “4” (“Not at all responsible/Not at all influential”). We calculated averages based on these ratings. An indicator lower than 2.5 suggests a high sense of responsibility. Conversely, an indicator higher than 2.5 is evidence of respondents’ having limited feelings of responsibility.

RANKING OF AREAS ACCORDING TO PERCEPTION OF RESPONSIBILITY AND INFLUENCE:
areas with a high degree of responsibility and influence are at the top, those with a low degree are at the bottom

	Average “sense of responsibility”	Average “sense of influence”
1. Family	1.36	1.55
2. Work	1.87	2.20
3. Home, immediate neighborhood	2.16	2.44
4. City, district	2.65	3.06
5. Country	2.93	3.34

In the question concerning a sense of responsibility: from 1: 100% (“Fully”) to 4: 100% (“Not at all responsible”).

HOW RESPONSIBLE DO YOU FEEL FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR FAMILY?

	Oct 06	Nov 14	June 16	Oct 17	Oct 18	Sep 19	Sep 20
Fully	68	57	70	63	72	71	71
To a considerable degree	26	32	23	28	20	19	22
To a low degree	4	9	6	6	5	6	4
Not at all responsible	1	2	1	1	2	3	2
Scale average	1.36	1.56	1.36	1.45	1.37	1.41	1.36
It is difficult to say	2	1	1	2	1	1	1

HOW RESPONSIBLE DO YOU FEEL FOR WHAT HAPPENS AT WORK?

	Oct 06	Nov 14	June 16	Oct 17	Oct 18	Sep 19	Sep 20
Fully	15	17	21	16	25	25	32
To a considerable degree	30	35	25	25	24	23	24
To a low degree	20	23	17	21	16	17	12
Not at all responsible	17	13	16	15	16	12	6
Scale average	2.47	2.31	2.34	2.45	2.28	2.21	1.87
It is difficult to say	18	13	20	22	20	24	26

HOW RESPONSIBLE DO YOU FEEL FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN AND AROUND (IN THE YARD/COURTYARD OF) THE BUILDING WHERE YOU LIVE?

	Oct 06	Nov 14	June 16	Oct 17	Oct 18	Sep 19	Sep 20
Fully	13	14	19	13	29	27	32
To a considerable degree	27	28	28	23	24	26	29
To a low degree	38	39	29	36	30	30	27
Not at all responsible	17	17	19	23	16	14	10
Scale average	2.62	2.63	2.51	2.74	2.32	2.32	2.16
It is difficult to say	5	2	5	5	1	2	2

HOW RESPONSIBLE DO YOU FEEL FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR CITY/NEIGHBORHOOD?

	Oct 06	Nov 14	June 16	Oct 17	Oct 18	Sep 19	Sep 20
Fully	3	3	4	5	15	13	18
To a considerable degree	12	14	14	9	17	19	23
To a low degree	37	39	34	34	35	39	30
Not at all responsible	43	41	44	48	31	27	25
Scale average	3.26	3.20	3.23	3.30	2.83	2.81	2.65
It is difficult to say	5	3	4	5	3	2	3

HOW RESPONSIBLE DO YOU FEEL FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS COUNTRY?

	Oct 06	Nov 14	June 16	Oct 17	Oct 18	Sep 19	Sep 20
Fully	2	2	3	4	13	13	15
To a considerable degree	8	9	8	5	15	16	16
To a low degree	23	27	22	24	28	28	25
Not at all responsible	59	57	64	60	41	39	40
Scale average	3.51	3.45	3.53	3.49	2.99	2.97	2.93
It is difficult to say	8	4	4	6	3	4	5

TO WHAT DEGREE DO YOU FEEL YOU CAN INFLUENCE WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR FAMILY?

	Oct 06	June 16	Oct 17	Oct 18	Sep 19	Sep 20
Fully	57	65	59	61	61	61
To a considerable degree	33	26	30	25	24	26
To a low degree	7	7	7	8	10	8
Not at all influential	2	2	2	4	4	5
Scale average	1.53	1.42	1.52	1.56	1.56	1.55
It is difficult to say	2	1	2	1	1	1

TO WHAT DEGREE DO YOU FEEL YOU CAN INFLUENCE WHAT HAPPENS AT WORK?

	Oct 06	June 16	Oct 17	Oct 18	Sep 19	Sep 20
Fully	11	19	12	16	18	21
To a considerable degree	26	23	24	24	22	27
To a low degree	27	19	25	21	22	16
Not at all influential	21	20	18	20	15	10
Scale average	2.68	2.49	2.62	2.55	2.45	2.20
It is difficult to say	17	19	20	19	22	26

TO WHAT DEGREE DO YOU FEEL YOU CAN INFLUENCE WHAT HAPPENS IN OR AROUND (IN THE YARD/COURTYARD OF) THE BUILDING WHERE YOU LIVE?

	Oct 06	June 16	Oct 17	Oct 18	Sep 19	Sep 20
Fully	10	15	10	18	18	21
To a considerable degree	22	26	19	24	25	28
To a low degree	41	32	39	36	39	34
Not at all influential	23	23	28	21	17	15
Scale average	2.81	2.66	2.87	2.59	2.56	2.44
It is difficult to say	4	5	5	2	2	3

TO WHAT DEGREE DO YOU FEEL YOU CAN INFLUENCE WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR CITY/NEIGHBORHOOD?

	Oct 06	June 16	Oct 17	Oct 18	Sep 19	Sep 20
Fully	1	2	3	6	6	9
To a considerable degree	7	10	6	10	10	13
To a low degree	30	30	30	37	41	37
Not at all influential	56	54	57	46	41	28
Scale average	3.49	3.41	3.48	3.25	3.19	3.06
It is difficult to say	5	5	5	2	3	3

TO WHAT DEGREE DO YOU FEEL YOU CAN INFLUENCE WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS COUNTRY?

	Oct 06	June 16	Oct 17	Oct 18	Sep 19	Sep 20
Fully	1	2	2	4	5	8
To a considerable degree	3	3	3	6	6	8
To a low degree	15	17	21	25	27	26
Not at all influential	75	73	68	62	58	55
Scale average	3.76	3.69	3.65	3.49	3.43	3.34
It is difficult to say	7	4	6	3	4	3

Translated by Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (formerly Monterey Institute of International Studies).

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