YURIY SAYENKO

yuriy privalov

 

CHORNOBYL VICTIMS and their FUTURE

 

Aim:          Using the method of sociologic self-appraisals of different categories of the suffered people, to determine their orientations as to the future, in comparison with the orientations of residents of  “clean” territories.

 

Planning the future

 

(The part of those people who plan some factors of their life)

 

 

 

 

Including

 

A question in the questionnaire:

“Whether you have specific plans in your life?”

 

Total

n=1200

1st zone

n=300

3rd zone

n=300

Re-settlers

n=300

“Clean”

n=300

 

 

1.

To earn additional money

 

55

48

38

62

64

 

2.

To start self-educating and rising cultural level

 

24

21

21

26

23

 

3.

To settle lodging problems

23

25

16

33

20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.

To be engaged in small business

19

16

14

27

20

 

 

5.

To change a place of habitation

18

21

18

15

16

 

 

6.

To settle educational and qualifying problems

 

18

16

17

19

19

 

7.

To give a birth to a child

17

15

18

18

19

 

 

8.

To change a place of work

15

16

9

24

15

 

 

9.

To acquire a country-cottage a plot

11

6

5

14

20

 

 

10.

To rent (purchase) an additional land area

5

2

3

3

12

 

 

11.

To become a farmer

2

0

1

4

2

 

 

 

The belief of the suffered people in restoring a life in contaminated areas in future.

 

 

A question in the questionnaire:

“Whether it is possible to restore (rehabilitate) business life in contaminated areas?”

34

70

65

25

18

The need in help in the nearest future.

 

 

 

 

Including

 

A question in the questionnaire:

“What kind of help do you need in the nearest future?”

 

Total

 

2nd zone

 

3rd zone

 

Re-settlers

 

“Clean”

 

 

 

1.

Pecuniary aid

 

95

99

97

91

90

 

2.

Personal treatment of health

 

78

96

83

79

55

 

3.

Treatment of children’s health

57

74

57

65

31

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.

Finding of employment

23

21

17

40

16

 

 

5.

New profession, requalifying

18

14

19

25

15

 

 

6.

To establish normal relations in family

 

9

3

1

18

20

 

7.

To go to a new place of residence

9

10

11

6

10

 

 

8.

To obtain a land for farming

4

2

1

5

7

 

 

 

The liquidators in future.

 

 

 

 

Including

 

A question in the questionnaire:

“In case of a new disaster, what is your relation to liquidators?”

 

Total

 

2nd zone

 

3rd zone

 

Re-settlers

 

“Clean”

 

 

 

1.

I am just that person who would become

a liquidator.

 

10

9

6

20

6

 

2.

My daughter (son) would become

a liquidator

 

0

0

0

1

0

 

3.

My wife (husband) would become a liquidator.

0

0

0

1

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.

Let the others become liquidators

13

6

11

20

15

 

 

5.

It is difficult to say

77

85

83

58

79