History and capacities

History

Most employees of Info Sapiens are former GfK Ukraine employees.

Former employees of Social and Political Research Department, Qualitative Research Department, Fieldwork Department, Data Processing Department, and Quality Control Department launched a new local research company named Info Sapiens which was registered in September, 2018. Vadym Syvoglaz, former Deputy Operations Director of GfK Ukraine, became Director of Info Sapiens. Former Head of GfK Social and Political Research Department Inna Volosevych became Deputy Director of Info Sapiens.

Capacities

Info Sapiens team complies with the ICC/ESOMAR International Code of Marketing and Social Research Practice. Info Sapiens team members belong to the following Ukrainian and international associations: Ukrainian Sociological Association (САУ), International Sociological Association (ISA), Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR), International Political Science Association (IPSA), American Political Science Association (APSA), International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).

Info Sapiens team includes 33 persons, particularly, 10 researchers. Info Sapiens conducts fieldwork for GfK Ukraine projects and also independently conducts research projects, namely social and political surveys. The company possesses all-Ukraine network of interviewers and supervisors of about 800 persons, 140 devices for CAPI, CATI studio of 70 working places where 120 interviewers currently work, and online panel of 32 000 respondents.

On average, Info Sapiens monthly conducts:

  16 000 face-to-face interviews;
  10 000 CATIs;
  5 000 online interviews;
  40 focus-groups;
  60 in-depth interviews.

Also, Info Sapiens conducts monthly nationally representative Omnibus with sample size of 1000 interviews.