Kyiv International Institute of Sociology

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Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) is a Ukrainian research organization founded in 1990. It studies social and socioeconomic topics, marketing, politics, health, and also offers consulting and auditing services. KIIS runs a regular omnibus survey, maintains an online Data Bank searchable by keywords, and conducts original academic research in addition to commissioned projects. Its Archive holds many publications by KIIS experts, and the institute has published books and research manuals. Since 2011, KIIS has published its own journal, KIIS Review.

KIIS employs about 40 people at its Kyiv office and has representative offices in major Ukrainian cities. Regional centers have more than 500 interviewers, with ten focus group moderators based in Kyiv and regional offices. The institute operates a focus group research center and a computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) center. KIIS began in 1990 as a research center of the Sociological Association of Ukraine and, in 1992, partnered with Paragon Research International to become a Ukrainian-American company under the KIIS name. It is regarded as one of Ukraine’s leading pollsters and a pioneer in setting standards for sociological research. KIIS also created the Kyiv Archive, a social science database of over 200 surveys from the 1990s to today. After the 2022 Russian invasion, it received help from the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives to protect the archive’s data, which draws more than 100 researcher requests each year.