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.

In February survey, CVVM focused on evaluation of Petr Nečas's government. 28 % of Czechs are satisfied with the person of Prime Minister, 65 % are dissatisfied, 16 % are satisfied with government's performance and 79 % are not. Also government's program (28 %/59 %) as well as communication with public (17 %/77 %) is evaluated predominantly negatively. 83 % of respondents see negatively also a personal composition of Nečas's government, 12 % expressed opposite feeling in this matter.
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January survey of CVVM included questions referring to the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Questions concerned trust of people towards this institution, their awareness of its function, their opinion on its usefulness and on quality of the research conducted in the Academy in both national and world-wide context. Question regarding the opinion on financial subvention of the institution from the national budget was part of the survey too. Current data are compared with the data on the same topic collected in the survey in 2009.

In January 2012 CVVM investigated on the public attitudes towards financing Czech science and scientific research. Almost half of citizens think state should increase its expenses on science.
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In January 2012 the Public Opinion Research Centre survey has focused on questions related to science. In this press release are presented citizens' views on the position of the Czech science in global context and on some of the conditions the Czech science has for its functioning.

This report presents the information about the interest of Czech citizens in the outputs of scientific research, about the evaluation of contributions the science offer contemporary society and about attitudes to the style of public presentation of Czech science.
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In February 2012 CVVM SOÚ AV ČR investigated whether respondents trust to selected  politicians. They were given a list with 32 names of top politicians who represent political parties present in Chamber of Deputies.

In February 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.