Yuri Levada Analytical Center (Levada Center) is a Russian non-governmental research organization. The Center regularly conducts its own and custom sociological and marketing research, being one of the largest Russian companies in their field.
The center's staff are experts in the field of sociology, political science, economics, psychology, marketing, research , organization of mass surveys and data processing. Senior staff have been trained in research companies in the USA and Western Europe. Research staff of the center was the first to hold regular public opinion polls throughout the country since 1988.
Levada Center has its own network of 67 regional offices and maintains partnerships with centers of public opinion research in the CIS and Baltic countries. The results of research center regularly published information leading publications in Russia and the world.
Partners and customers Centre - Russian and international companies, research and non-profit organization.
In 2010 the Center carried out 114 research projects in which it held 132 "quantitative" and "qualitative" research. The survey polled nearly 180 thousand people living in different regions of the country, in cities and rural settlements.