EDB Integration Barometer — 2016 (Fifth Wave of the Survey)

Русская версия этой статьи можно найти по адресу 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2866408' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2866408In April–June 2016, the Eurasian Development Bank's Centre for Integration Studies together with its international research partner Eurasian Monitor conducted the fifth wave of measurements of the sentiment of the countries of the post-Soviet space as part of the EDB Integration Barometer project. This research is focused on the integration orientations of the citizens of countries of the CIS region. The fifth wave of the project includes nationwide surveys in seven countries of the CIS region: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, and Tajikistan. In all, 8,500 people were surveyed (at least 1,000 people in each country, according to a representative national sampling).During the course of our research, we found confirmation of basic patterns discovered from the results of the surveys conducted in the previous monitoring waves, and in certain countries, we observed a definite change in public opinion relating to integration preferences