Two thirds (66%) of people believe that for the income of their household they can buy or pay less than a year ago, a three tenths (30%) believe that the real income of their households is about the same as a year before, and only 3% of respondents said that their real income during the last year has increased.

January 2012 survey was investigating public opinion on current issues related to the debt crisis in the euro area and attempts to rescue her common currency euro in current extension.

Since February 1997 CVVM has been examined what people think about the economic standard of our country compared to nine other European countries.

According to the January survey of CVVM, 58 % of the Czech public agree with the current range of presidential competencies, 20 % would welcome their enlargement, 17 % would narrow them down.

According to the January survey of CVVM, 61 % of the Czech public prefer president to be elected by all voters, 16 % agree with the current system, where the presidential election is made by the parliament, 13 % would welcome the possibility to let a broader assembly of electors to decide about the head of the state.

In its regular survey in January 2012 the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on the questions about the Vaclav Klaus' presidency. Most Czechs think president Klaus is good in taking care of dignity and respect of his office (70 %) and he fulfills his constitutional functions (73 %). Majority of Czech population supposes president Vaclav Klaus is an autority for people (57 %) and represents the Czech Republic in foreign countries good (58 %).

In January this year, citizens of the Czech Republic evaluated how satisfied they are with the situation in selected areas of public life.

January survey of CVVM included a new question on New Year's resolutions. The resulting findings shows not only thematization of New Year's resolutions, but also relationship between New Year's resolutions and sociodemographic characteristics of respondents.

According to the January survey of CVVM, 62% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 30% view it as neither good nor bad and 7% consider it to be good.

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.