43% of parents would refuse to give a bribe in order for their child to receive high scores on the Unified State Exam (USE)

They are not willing to do that under no circumstances. Another 27% of parents are not so categorical, but would likely not pay. These data were collected during a survey for Russian families with school-aged children conducted in the fall of 2013 as part of the Higher School of Economics’ Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO) together with the Public Opinion Foundation.The project is coordinated by HSE ISSEK Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Education.

While 2% of parents would give a bribe without stopping to think.

An additional 11% would likely lean towards giving a bribe after some consideration, and 16% found it difficult to answer the question.

The news bulletin for the research is planned to be published in the second half of 2014.

Source: HSE website