In CVVM survey which was made within project Our society 2006 in October 2006 we asked our respondents a question whether they trust to constitutional institutions. Question about public confidence in constitutional institutions is regular part of CVVM surveys which help us to monitor public confidence during time. In the long term president of our country has been the most trustworthy Czech constitutional institution.

In November 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.

In September 2006 within the project of continual monitoring of Czech public opinion Our Society some questions used in research - Pubs and Beer in Czech Society in 2004 were repeated. Results of the survey provide us with both topical view of current situation of some aspects of position of beer and pubs in Czech society and of related questions of their development.

Within the project - monitoring of beer phenomenon in Czech society beer consumption and its popularity were surveyed. Press information brings basic information about current structure of popular drinks, trends in beer consumption and development of rate of beer consumption.

Press release offers basic information about some aspects that determine beer choosing strategies of Czech consumers. There are also mentioned topics such as the type of popular beer, concrete beer brand preference, preference of products breweries regionally close to respondents´ residence and importance of price and taste when choosing a beer.

Press release monitors some aspects of Czech citizen’s attitudes to beer and brewing. There are mentioned questions about public attitudes to high rate of consumed beer in Czech Republic, import of foreign beer on Czech market or expectation of development of Czech beer and brewing.

Press release contains analysis of questions related to the topic of gastronomical facilities and especially of the position of Czech pub in the structure of eating facilities and in the Czech society in general. There are also analysed topics such as popularity of eating places or specification of guests of traditional Czech pubs.

In October survey we asked respondents whether media influence decisions of politicians. More than a half of respondents agreed that media influence decisions of politicians (20 % definitely „yes“, 33 % rather „yes“ ) A quarter of people think that media have no such influence (rather „no“) and a tenth suposse media not to have definitely such influence.

According to 80 % of respondents Česká televize has main influence on decisions of politicians, Nova 73 % and Prima 59 %.

In October CVVM SOÚ AV ČR made a survey on the attitudes of Czech citizens to day 17 November and public opinions on social conditions nowadays and before 1989.

More than a half of respondents commemorate national holiday on 17 November but they do not celebrante it. A third of Czech citizens admit they do not usually know about the feast and they do not commemorate it. Only 6,3 % of respondents say that 17 November is a day to be celebrated and they also celebrate this day: 1,1 % of people celebrate this day with their family, 1,3 % with friends and 1,6 % take part in social gatherings and 2,3 % celebrate this feast in another way.

Popularity of Top Politicians

CVVM SOÚ AV ČR in October survey investigated how respondents trust to selected politicians (see table 1 and 2). They were shown a list with 23 names of top politicians from political Parties reprezented in Chamber of Deputies.

Among Party leaders Vlasta Parkanová enjoys the highest trust expressed by respondets (53 %).She is followed by Prague city mayor Pavel Bém (44 % of trustees).