Centre for the Study of Public Policy
University of Aberdeen

The Levada Center
Moscow

National Issues

• Economics

  • Q5. How characterize economic situation
  • Q6.What can Russia expect in the economy
  • Q7.Whether economic reforms should continue
  • Q8. Best economic system for Russia
  • Q9. What course do you think Russia should follow?
  • T3.Evaluation of economic systems
  • Privatization

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069

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063

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503

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539

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Table 3. Trends in the evaluation of the economic system
Q. Here is a scale evaluating how well an economy works. The top, plus 100, is the best and the bottom, minus 100, is the worst. Where on this scale would you put:
	92	93	94	95	96a	96b	98	00a	00b	01	03a	03b	04	Ch
%
Q. The economic system before the start of perestroika?
Positive	62	75	61	79	72	71	81	83	82	80	76	73	70	8
Neutral	12	9	12	10	14	11	8	7	5	7	5	5	8	-4
Neg.	26	16	27	11	14	20	11	10	13	13	19	22	21	-5
Mean	19	37	16	44	37	32	44	47	45	44	34	33	29	10
Std dev.	50	50	53	45	48	52	45	43	56	46	50	53	51	1
Q. Our present economic system?
Positive	9	29	14	16	22	29	31	31	29	41	52	57	60	51
Neutral	9	14	10	15	19	11	13	10	10	12	11	10	9	0
Neg.	82	56	76	68	58	60	56	59	62	47	37	32	30	-52
Mean	-51	-24	-46	-39	-29	-25	-26	-27	-30	-12	-2	5	8	59
Std dev	40	48	46	46	48	51	50	54	51	51	47	48	41	1
Q. Our economic system in five years time?
Positive	42	51	44	37	40	52	45	58	64	61	66	71	85	43
Neutral	18	23	25	24	33	15	20	17	12	13	11	13	6	-12
Neg.	40	26	31	40	27	33	34	24	24	27	22	16	9	-31
Mean	-3	9	1	-11	2	5	0	14	16	16	19	30	39	42
Std dev.	53	53	54	52	48	57	53	53	51	52	49	46	37	-16
Source: New Russia Barometers I to XIII

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