According to November 2012 survey 11 % of citizens regard taxation on high-income earners as high, 21 % say it is adequate and 61 % think it is low. Taxation on average-income earners is considered to be high by 48 % of respondents, adequate by 44 % and low by 4 % of citizens. Taxation on low-income earners was supposed to be high by 75 %, adequate by 19 % and low by 1 %. 74 % of respondents think that tax rate should be higher for high-income earners than for low-income earners.

In October survey CVVM investigated how sympathetic or unsympathetic are some selected countries to the Czech public. In this survey more than 20 countries were selected. The most sympathetic country is Slovakia followed by France and Sweden.

November's survey of CVVM comprised a bloc of questions concerning the social policy. Within this bloc, we posed a question, in what extent the state should take care of social security of its citizens. Subsequently, a set of questions was asked investigating, how the citizens evaluate the level of security in different areas of social policy. Approximately four fifth (82 %) of all population evaluate the social policy in the Czech Republic as rather or very wrong.

According to the November survey of CVVM, 70% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 24% view it as neither good nor bad and 5% consider it to be good.

71% of Czechs against 17% think that the U.S. in their foreign policy prioritize their own power and economic interests, and 44% against 40% believe that U.S. do not take into consideration the opinion of the world community.

More than two fifths (42%) of Czech citizens were at least partly interested in American presidential election.

November survey focused on attitudes of Czechs to some representatives of international politics. Respondents were asked to express their confidence or non-confidence to some main figures of international policy and persons involved in recent important events as well as supreme representatives of Central European countries.

In November 2012 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, Government, President, Local and Regional Councils.

Next year, it will be 20 years since the split of Czechoslovakia into two independent republics. On the occasion of this anniversary, Public Opinion Research Centre and Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava in cooperation with Focus agency investigated public opinion regarding the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and the creation of the independent state. This press release contains comparison of Czech and Slovak citizens' opinion about several things related to this topic.

Next year it will be 20 years since the split of Czechoslovakia into two independent republics. In its regular survey in November 2012, Public Opinion Research Centre investigated public opinion regarding the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. This press release contains time comparison of three regularly asked questions related to this issue.