As a part of February survey there were some questions focused on interest of Czech citizens in political events in the country as well as in the world and on involvement of Czech citizens in political and public life.

In January 2012 the CVVM regular survey included a block of questions related to NATO and national defence. There was examined opinion on the current need for NATO as a military-political organization and how the existence and actions of NATO influences the safety of members, the relationships within and outside the organization, peace and stability and ability to address the threat of terrorism.

In January 2012 Public Opinion Research Centre carried out a survey about NATO and national defence. Within the project were examined satisfaction with membership in NATO, judgments about the consequences of membership in NATO and there was also examined opinion on national defence.

In February 2012 Public Opinion Research Centre carried out a survey about debts and loans. In this press release are published attitudes of Czech citizens to debts of common people. In this text there are also published attitudes of Czechs to individual debts, e.g. acceptability of loans for real estate, education, consumption, car, holidays or for starting a business. Another question was focused on importance of financial resources for unexpected expenses.

In February 2012, CVVM asked questions concerning the topic of indebtment. We surveyed the opinion on the level of indebtment among the Czech citizens and on the level of indebtment of the Czech state. With regard to these two fields of indebtment, we also asked questions about how serious a problem the current level of indebtment poses to the Czech people.

In February survey of CVVM respondents had to assess menace impact of selected groups in the Czech Republic. They were also collected views on threats by war, epidemics, natural disasters, economic crisis or resource crisis.
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In February survey of CVVM, citizens answered questions about the sense of security and satisfaction with the activities of the police.

In February, the Public Opinion Research Centre examined views on the involvement of citizens in decision-making processes. People would like to make decisions primarily on important local issues. This view is supported by 83% of citizens. On the other hand, decisions on important laws and international treaties should do politicians. This view is supported by 65 % in the case of laws and 75 % in the case of international treaties.
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In February this year, respondents of the Public Opinion Research Centre evaluated the urgency of solve in some areas of public life. The most urgent problem is supposed to be corruption and 80 % of respondents supposed the sollution of corruption to be very urgent, 15 % rather urgent.
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In its February survey, CVVM focused on opinions towards the political system in the Czech Republic. Questions in the survey concerned the level of satisfaction with democracy, the evaluation of democracy as a form of government, respect to human rights, coequality and fairness in treating people and the evaluation of the politic system development since 1989. Current data are compared with the data on the same topic collected in previous surveys.