Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2012

Igor V. Zadorin. “Monitoring social moods in the post-Soviet space:EDB Integration Barometer”The Economics of the Post-Sovietand Eurasian IntegrationThe list of answers that respondents can chooseAnswer optionsAzerbaijanArmeniaBelarusGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanUkraineGreat BritainGermanyFranceOther countries of the European UnionIndiaChinaUSATurkeyJapanCountries of Arabic-Islamic World (Middle East and Northern Africa)Other countriesNo countriesCannot sayIndicatorto be calculatedAttraction to thepost-Soviet space as awhole and to separatecountries in itAttraction to theEuropean UnionAttraction to the restof the worldAutonomyautonomy (evident from a high proportion of refusals to mention any countriesas “attractive”). Possible choices are shown in table above.An additional basis on which to classify conclusions about people’s integrationpreferences is the functional direction of this integration, the sphere in whichintegration could take place. Regional integration is a multilevel process, which,along with economic cooperation, includes issues of politics, security and socioculturalinteraction. We therefore divided our questions to the population intothree categories: economic, political and socio-cultural. The composition of theindicators in each of these groups is illustrated in next figure (brief versions ofthe questions).Eurasian Development Bank153