Trust in European Union Institutions
In April 2011 Public Opinion Research Centre investigated trust in the European Union, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the President of the European Council and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Another two questions deal with the issue, whether Czechs believe, that decisions of the EU are in behalf of the Czech Republic and ordinary people (like themselves).
Public Opinion on Membership of the Czech Republic in European Union
In April 2011 CVVM probed, how Czech citizens evaluate membership of the Czech Republic in European Union. Besides satisfaction with membership, Czechs also talked about measure of their pride in context of being citizens of European Union. Then Czechs evaluated helpfulness and harmfulness of European integration in these areas - economy, politics, culture, country defence and ecology. On one hand, most of Czechs supposed that European integration is useful in area of defence (72 %) and ecology (70 %).
The views on abortion, euthanasia and capital punishment - May 2011
In May, The Public Opinion Research Centre examined the views on abortion, euthanasia and capital punishment. More than two-thirds of Czechs believe that a woman has a right to abortion. Nearly two-thirds agree with euthanasia and the same percentage agrees with the capital punishment.
Confidence in constitutional institutions and satisfaction with political situation in June 2011
In June 2011 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.
As a part of the CVVM surveys there is a question about public satisfaction with current political situation in the Czech Republic.
Citizens on State of Environment - May 2011
According to May 2011 survey of CVVM people are more satisfied with state of environment at their place of residence (70%) than in Czech republic in general (59%). Respondents were most satisfied with accessability of free nature (83% "satisfied"), quality of drinking water (84%) and cleanness of surrounding nature (75%). On the other hand respondents were dissatisfied with impact of density of traffic on the environment (58% "dissatisfied", 41% "satisfied").
Party Preferences and Voting Model in June 2011
In June 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.
Party preferences give us information about public sympathy with 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 knot who to vote for.
Which Values Are Important For Us?
May survey of CVVM SOÚ AV ČR focused on the matter of values and their importance for Czech people.
Czech Public on Global Environmental Problems - May 2011
Within its May survey, Public Opinion Research Centre focused on the environment. The survey also investigated how Czech citizens evaluate relevancy of some problems related to global environment. As a most important problems were marked cumulation of garbage (93% „very + quite important problem“), polution of drinking water (91%), lack of drinking water (85%) and disappearance of rain forests (83%).
Citizen's Views on Drugs - May 2011
The survey of May touched briefly the issue of drugs and their use 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. Furthermore, the survey investigated whether institutions in the Czech Republic deal with the drug problem adequately, inadequately or excessively in the view of the public.
Satisfaction with conditions of living at the place of residence - April 2011
In April, the Center for Public Opinion Research focused on satisfaction with life in the locality in general and selected living conditions in the vicinity of residence. 70% of Czechs are satisfied with living conditions in their place of residence. A fifth said neutral variant. A tenth is not satisfied.
Citizens on Economic Situation of the Czech Republic and Living Standard of Their Households - May 2011
According to the May survey of CVVM, 58% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 30% view it as neither good nor bad and 11% consider it to be good. 43% of Czechs evaluate the living standard of their household as good, 19% consider it to be bad, and 37% characterize it as neither good, nor bad.
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