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286 Štefan Šutaj position of Ruthenians/Ukrainians in Slovakia in the present and in the past. The final scope of the project was a sociological historical study, which was concluded in 2000. The sample for the survey was composed of 400 Ruthenians/Ukrainians (with a proportional representation of both ethnic orientations) and 400 Slovaks. In order to gain comparative and more complex insights, we divided the sample into four subgroups: Ukrainian subgroup (200 respondents); Ruthenian subgroup (200 respondents); Subgroup of Slovaks coming from the ethnically mixed region of north-eastern Slovakia - the “direct contact population" (200 respondents); Subgroup of Slovaks coming from a relatively homogenous Slovak environment - the “indirect contact population” (200 respondents). The localities included in this study were selected according to administrative divisions that were valid in 1991, the year of the national census. In north-eastern Slovakia these constituted mixed regions of both rural and urban character chosen for the high proportion of the Ruthenian/Ukrainian population. Collection of data took place in June-September 2000 in 41 districts from all eight regions of Slovakia. Students from universities in Košice, Prešov and Bratislava were chosen to fill in the questionnaires. The study was designed as a sociological, socio-psychological and historical inquiry that used methods characteristic of all three scientific disciplines. The study was conducted through questionnaires, interviews, and analyses of historical and modern documents. The subject of this research was the legal, political and cultural positions of the Slovak population in Ukraine and of the Ruthenians (Ukrainians) in Slovakia, as well as inter-ethnic relations within the process of the transformation of social systems. Accordingly, we were concerned with the following principal indicators of identity: language use, education, culture, state of legal consciousness, relatedness to the mother nation and questions of ethnic, religious and cultural
