Press release offers information about some attitudes of Czech citizens towards nuclear energy that were surveyed especially in the context of Fukushima accident. Some of the results are comparable with the survey, made in this long-lasting project after the Chernobyl accident.

April survey of CVVM focused on public attitude and public relationships between Czech population and Romany minority. Survey showed that more than four fifths of Czech citizens (81%) see living together of Romany and non-Romany population as bad in Czech Republic generally, and three fifths (59%) evaluate the coexistence as bad in a place where they live.

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In May 2011 CVVM SOÚ AV ČR investigated whether respondents trust to selected politicians. They were given a list with 33 names of top politicians who represent political parties present in Chamber of Deputies.

In May 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.

According to the April survey of CVVM, 59% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 30% view it as neither good nor bad and 10% consider it to be good. 42% of Czechs evaluate the living standard of their household as good, 18% consider it to be bad, and 40% characterize it as neither good, nor bad.

In May 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.

According to the April survey of Public Opinion Research Centre, only 21% of Czech citizens approve the adoption of euro as legal tender in the Czech Republic, 75% oppose it. Since April 2010 a support for adoption of euro fell by 17%, while share of disapproval increased by 20%.

A half of Czech citizens described the cenzus as well managed. The same part of Czechs think that the cenzus is necessary. 68 % have no doubt about usefulness of all items of cenzus and 53 % believe that the gathered information will be adequately protected from misuse.

In March 2011 Public Opinion Research Centre carried out a survey about the prevalence of corruption among public officials and in different institutions and areas of public life. Data were collected during the first March weeks that means before the government crisis.

In March 2011 CVVM survey investigated Czech public's views with regard to foreigners who live in the long term or permanently in the Czech Republic. 53 % of Czechs see foreign citizens living in the Czech Republic as a problem, 37 % claim the opposite. But, when people should consider their neighbourhood, not the Czech Republic as a whole country, 56 % think foreign citizens are not a problem.

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