Press releases

In a survey conducted by Public Opinion Research Centre in June 2019, we investigated how people trust to political Parties and whether they are willing to take part in elections to the Chamber of Deputies. In the press release there are two different types of information: the likely voter model and the party preferences.

The likely voter model indicates anticipated result of hypothetical elections to the Chamber of Deputies in the time of conducting the survey.

The party preferences give us information about public sympathy for 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 know who to vote for.

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In May 2019, the Public Opinion Research Centre questioned a set of questions about the attitudes of the Czech public to receiving refugees and the situation associated with the migration crisis. Specifically, respondents expressed their attitudes to receiving refugees from areas affected by military conflicts in general and refugees from the Middle East and North Africa in particular. Part of the interview was also exploring interest in current developments around this situation and perceiving the situation as a security threat.

In May 2019, the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on environment and its protection.

In May CVVM survey was focused on environmental issues. Respondents were asked about how satisfied or dissatisfied they are with the state of environment in the Czech Republic and in their place of residence. Next citizens rated the size of their satisfaction with concrete areas of environment in their residence such as cleanness of air, surrounding nature and surface water. Respondents also evaluated traffic density, level of noise and the quality of drinking water.

We also examined whether people are interested about information about the state of the environment and whether they have sufficient information on the state of the environment.

The survey of May touched briefly the issue of drugs in the Czech Republic. People were asked whether and how much they perceive the current situation regarding drug use to be a problem in the Czech Republic as a country, and specifically in their place of residence.

In May 2019 Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to consumption of addictive narcotics and drugs. Respondents evaluated moral acceptability of consumption of tobacco, alcohol, pain pills, sleeping pills or tranquilizers, hemp drugs and drugs such as ecstasy, heroin and pervitin.

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In its May survey, the Public Opinion Research Centre examined attitudes of Czech citizens towards the death penalty. 50% of respondents hold the view the death penalty should exist in the Czech Republic, 41% oppose it. Since 1992, when it was 76%, support of the existence of the death penalty decreased on two thirds, while opposition to the death penalty (13% in 1992) more than trippled.

 In May 2019 within the regular survey the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on issues that could be perceived as morally controversial. Specifically, respondents answered questions concerned with the abortion, euthanasia and prostitution.

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Part of the September and October 2018 survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on the municipal elections. The survey mapped the situation before the elections as well as satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the results of the election and the post-election arrangement in the management of municipalities.

According to the May survey of CVVM, 45% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as good, 37% view it as neither good nor bad, and 16% consider it to be bad.