Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, or KIIS ( uk, Київський міжнародний інститут соціології, КМІС), is a Ukrainian organization conducting sociological research in the fields of social and socioeconomic research,

marketing research Marketing research is the systematic gathering, recording, and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data about issues relating to marketing products and services. The goal is to identify and assess how changing elements of the marketing mix i ...

, political research, health studies, and research consulting and auditing.

Methods

In its projects, KIIS uses the following research methods: * traditional interviews * computer assisted interviews * telephone surveys * Internet surveys * postal surveys * street surveys * tracking research * panel studies * interviews at places where products are sold and services delivered * exit-polls * covert consumer * retail sales and service delivery audit * measuring flows of people and transport * in-depth interviews *

brainstorming Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members. In other words, brainstorming is a situation where a grou ...

* expert surveys * hall-tests * ethnographic methods *

content analysis Content analysis is the study of documents and communication artifacts, which might be texts of various formats, pictures, audio or video. Social scientists use content analysis to examine patterns in communication in a replicable and systematic ...

desk research Secondary research involves the summary, collation and/or synthesis of existing research. Secondary research is contrasted with primary research in that primary research involves the generation of data, whereas secondary research uses primary res ...

* INPOLL online research KIIS runs an Omnibus survey on a regular basis. KIIS supports an open research Data Bank with the online key word search that is updated on a regular basis. Besides commissioned research, KIIS specialists conduct original academic research. KIIS Archive contains a collection of national and international publications by KIIS experts. KIIS published a number of books and research manuals. Since 2011, KIIS has been publishing its own journal «KIIS Review».

Structure

While 40 employees work at the central KIIS office, KIIS also has representative offices in major cities of

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. A team of KIIS interviewers is based at each regional center, with their total number exceeding 500 people. Ten

focus group A focus group is a group interview involving a small number of demographically similar people or participants who have other common traits/experiences. Their reactions to specific researcher/evaluator-posed questions are studied. Focus groups are ...

moderators work at KIIS Kyiv and regional offices. KIIS has a focus group research center and a

computer-assisted telephone interviewing Computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) is a telephone surveying technique in which the interviewer follows a script provided by a software application. It is a structured system of microdata collection by telephone that speeds up the c ...

(CATI) center.

Senior management

* KIIS

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

– Valeriy Khmelko, doctor of philosophical sciences,

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

* KIIS

General Director A director general or director-general (plural: ''directors general'', ''directors-general'', ''director generals'' or ''director-generals'' ) or general director is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a government ...

– Volodymyr Paniotto, doctor of philosophical sciences,

* KIIS

executive director Executive director is commonly the title of the chief executive officer of a non-profit organization, government agency or international organization. The title is widely used in North American and European not-for-profit organizations, though ...

– Natalia Kharchenko, PhD * KIIS Financial Director – Volodymyr Khmelko

History

The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) was founded in 1990 as a research center of the Sociological Association of Ukraine. In 1992, a partnership was established with the Paragon Research International and thus the research center became a Ukrainian-American research company under the name of KIIS. In 1995, KIIS joined ESOMAR (

European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research ESOMAR is a membership organization for market, social, and opinion researchers that was founded in 1947. The name ESOMAR is an abbreviation of their original name, the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research, which reflects the orig ...

External links

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