SOCIS ( uk, TOB „СОЦІС - Центр соціальних та політичних досліджень") is a
political sociology
Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis. Interested in the social causes and consequences of how ...
company in Ukraine. It was one of the companies that performed rolling and
exit polls for Ukrainian elections in
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
,
2002,
2004, and
Ukrainian referendum in 2000.
The company has been a member of
The Gallup Organization
Gallup, Inc. is an American analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide. Starting in the 1980s, Gallup transitioned its b ...
since 1994. In 1999-2002 the original company has forked into TNS Ukraine and became a part of the
Taylor Nelson Sofres
Kantar TNS is a global market research and market information group with offices in over 80 countries. Formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, the firm was acquired by WPP Group for £1.6 billion in O ...
market research group.
Results of exit polls performed by this company during the
Ukrainian presidential election in 2004 were used as one of arguments leading to the
Orange Revolution
The Orange Revolution ( uk, Помаранчева революція, translit=Pomarancheva revoliutsiia) was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate afterm ...
.
In 2007 Due to the change in the development strategy of the SOCIS Center, the marketing research direction was restored and, accordingly, the name was changed to the SOCIS Center for Social and Marketing Research and the company logo. Today, the SOCIS Center has everything necessary to conduct various types of research - from developing a research program to preparing a report.
References
External links
*
Public opinion research companies
Privately held companies of Ukraine
Sociological research companies of Ukraine
Companies established in 1993
Ukrainian companies established in 1993
{{Ukraine-company-stub