Press releases

January survey of CVVM made an inquiry into attitudes of citizens towards constitutional competencies of a president. Questions in the survey concerned the range of presidential competencies in general and also with regard to several particular competencies such as granting of amnesty or stopping a lawsuit, dismissing the Chamber of Deputies and refusing the law passed by the parliament. Two questions asked about the role of president in appointing the Board of the Czech National Bank and in appointing the judges of the Constitutional Court.

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January survey of CVVM asked questions regarding the attitudes towards the office of president of the Czech Republic. Questions focused on the mechanism of presidential election, president's relation to the government and government appointment, on the position of president in the foreign policy and on the problems president should pay attention in his or her office.

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In January survey, the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on evaluation of Bohuslav Sobotka's government. 51% of Czechs are satisfied with the person of Prime Minister, 38% are dissatisfied, 49% are satisfied with government's performance and 39% are not.

In the December survey the Public Opinion Research Centre of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic posed to all respondents a question: "How satisfied are you with your life? Are you very satisfied, rather satisfied, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, rather dissatisfied, very dissatisfied?"

In January 2015 within the regular survey CVVM SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., questioned respondents about their confidence in constitutional institutions. In this month there was a question about their trust to Chambers of Parliament, President, Government, Local and Regional Councils.

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In January survey CVVM investigated how people trust to political Parties and whether they are willing to take part in elections to Chamber of Deputies. In the press release there are two different types of information: Party preference and a model of voting behaviour.
Party preferences give us information about public sympathy with political Parties in the group of citizens who have voting right and there is also included a part of citizens who will not take part in  elections or they do not knot who to vote for.

December 2014 survey of Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions concerning health and health care. Within the frame of this block there were investigated views of Czech citizens on different types of existing fees and on other cost-saving measures being considered in the healthcare system.

In December 2014, Public Opinion Research Centre enquired about health care. With health care 54% citizens are satisfied, 15% are dissatisfied and 30% are neither satisfied, nor dissatisfied.

In December 2014, Public Opinion Research Centre enquired about health care system in the Czech republic. We were interested in satisfaction of citizens with health care system in the Czech Republic and public opinion on issues in some specific areas of the health care system.

November's survey of CVVM comprised a bloc of questions concerning public opinion on the pension system in the Czech Republic and its possible change. We asked a selected part of our respondents that are not yet retired, whether they use any form of savings or investments to put money aside for their retirement, whether they fear they might not be sufficiently secured when retired, and what are their expectations regarding the sufficiency of pensions paid by the state.