SOCIS ( uk, TOB „СОЦІС - Центр соціальних та політичних досліджень") is a
political sociology company in Ukraine. It was one of the companies that performed rolling and
exit poll
An election exit poll is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. A similar poll conducted before actual voters have voted is called an entrance poll. Pollsters – usually private companies working for n ...
s 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 ...
,
2002
File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...
,
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
, and
Ukrainian referendum in 2000.
The company has been a member of
The Gallup Organization since 1994. In 1999-2002 the original company has forked into TNS Ukraine and became a part of the
Taylor Nelson Sofres 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.
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.
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Public opinion research companies
Privately held companies of Ukraine
Sociological research companies of Ukraine
Companies established in 1993
Ukrainian companies established in 1993
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