Residents of Odesa have identified main city's problems: corruption of local authorities, the state of roads and the quality of healthcare, as evidenced by data of SOCIS poll results, made public at the Interfax-Ukraine news agency press conference on August 18.
Thus, asked: “What are the most urgent problems of the city, in your opinion?”, 44.3 percent of Odesa residents called the state of roads, 39.7 percent – corruption among local authorities, 37.4 percent – the quality of healthcare, 36.6 percent – the state of houses (the dirt in risers blocks of flats, emergency state), 32.3 percent – the fight against crime, 20.5 percent – the cleanness of the city streets, 17.7 percent – the quality of drinking water, 12.5 percent – problems with access to the beaches (lack of free beaches), 12.2 percent – the environmental state of the city, 6.4 percent – the work of schools and pre-schools and 6.4 percent – the state of urban markets.
In turn, 1.4 percent of respondents believe that Odesa doesn’t have any problems at all. 1.2 percent found difficult to answer this question.
In addition, according to the majority of Odesa residents, the situation is tense in the city – 54.5 percent. Some 30.1 percent of respondents said the situation is more likely stable than not, 9.9 percent called the situation explosive and 5.5 percent of respondents were undecided.
The poll was conducted from July 31 through August 9 on the entire territory of Odesa by means of personal interviews at respondents’ places of residence. A total of 2,000 respondents aged 18 years and older were surveyed.
The margin of error comprises within 2.2 percent.
