KYIV. Aug 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Residents of Odesa have identified main city’s problems: corruption of local authorities, the state of roads and the quality of healthcare, as evidenced by data of SOCIS poll results, made public at the Interfax-Ukraine news agency press conference on Thursday.

Thus, asked: "What are the most urgent problems of the city, in your opinion?", 44.3% of Odesa residents called the state of roads, 39.7% - corruption among local authorities, 37.4% - the quality of healthcare, 36.6% - the state of houses (the dirt in risers blocks of flats, emergency state), 32.3% - the fight against crime, 20.5% - the cleanness of the city streets, 17.7% - the quality of drinking water, 12.5% - problems with access to the beaches (lack of free beaches), 12.2% - the environmental state of the city, 6.4% - the work of schools and pre-schools and 6.4% - the state of urban markets.

In turn, 1.4% of respondents believe that Odesa doesn’t have any problems at all. 1.2% found difficult to answer this question.

In addition, according to the majority of Odesa residents, the situation is tense in the city - 54.5%. Some 30.1% of respondents said the situation is more likely stable than not, 9.9% called the situation explosive and 5.5% of respondents were undecided.

The poll was conducted from July 31 through August 9 on the entire territory of Odesa by means of personal interviews at respondents’ places of residence. A total of 2,000 respondents aged 18 years and older were surveyed.

The margin of error comprises within 2.2%.