Satisfaction with job and evaluation of working relations

Major part of czech working people is satisfied with their jobs, when 81 % of economically active people chose that answer.Only a fifth of working people is dissatisfied with the job. People with good standart of living, university graduates , (93% of them are satisfied with their jobs) and earners are satisfied with their jobs.November survey was also focused on evaluation of working relations.

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Public opinion on unemployment

As a part of November survey there were some questions about unemployment.

Three quarters of respondents think, that current level of unemployment is too high. Only a fifth of respondents suppose current level of unemployment to be adequate and only 1 % of respondents regard it as too low. Almost a half of respondents fear of rise of unemployment a third of them think it will remain the same.

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Fear of terorism and opinions on strenghtening of power of intelligence services

45% of citizens fear of possible teroristic attack on Czech Republic. Women (50%) are afraid of teroristic attack more than men (38%). More than three fifths of respondents expressed their opinion that intelligence services competencies should be strenghten, when almost a quarter of respondents is against it. People , who do not definitely trust in BIS and people who do not fear of teroristic attack, are often against strenghtening of power of secret service.

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World war two and anti-fascist resistance from the perspective of public

Three quarters of respondents suppose that World war two and key events of the war should be still remembered, 15 % of people share opposite opinion. More than two fifths of people expressed their opinion that key events of the war are seldom remembered, same part of people think that these events are remembered well and 6 % of respondents think that the events are remembered too often. Czech anti-fascist resistance in West or in East Europe is evaluated to be important or very important, czech anti-fascist resistance in West Europe is supposed to be important or very important by 71 % of respondents, czech anti-fascist resistance in East Europe is supposed to be important or very important by 70% of people and 68 % of respondents evaluate home anti-fascist resistance.

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Public opinion on performance of president Vaclav Klaus

As a result of November survey czech citizens mostly evaluate present performance of president Vaclav Klaus positively .The best evaluated president activities are :how president cares of dignity and respect of his office (89%), how president represents Czech Republic in foreign countries (86%), how presidents fulfills his constitutional function (84%). 72 % of respondents evaluate authority of president Vaclav Klaus, 55 % of interviewees judge positively president‘s influence on internal politics‘ life.

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Ratings of Selected Politicians in an International Context

Trust prevails over mistrust in the case of V. Klaus, T. Blair, J. Chirac, M. Dzurinda, J. Kerry and A. Kwasniewski. For other personalities in international politics included in the survey, there is prevailing mistrust among the Czech public, most significant being for Fidel Castro, Jasir Arafat, Alexander Lukashenko and also – though on a smaller scale – for the Presidents of the USA and Russia George Bush and Vladimir Putin.

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Confidence in constitutional institutions and satisfaction with political situation

In November survey of the Centra pro výzkum veřejného mínění (Public Opinion Research Centre), realised within the project Naše společnost 2004 (Our society 2004), we interrogated the respondents about how they trust the individual constitutional institutions.

In November 2004 Czech citizens expressed the highest level of trust to the president of the country, who enjoyed confidence of almost three quarters (73 %) of the respondents.

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Party preferences in November 2004

All respondents having the right to vote were asked an open question (i.e. without a list of political parties being used) investigating which party they would vote for if an election to the Chamber of Deputies took place the following week (the question was: ‘Imagine that an election to the Chamber of Deputies is held next week. If you participated, which party would you vote for?’). The structure of the answers given is summarised in the table.

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Standard of Living and the Family Budget

In October 2004, approximately a third of respondents (approx. 33%) considered the standard of living of their household as being good. 45% described it as neither good, nor bad, and less than a quarter (22%) characterised it as bad. 4% of inhabitants consider their household to be rich, while 29% consider it to be as relatively or very poor and two thirds as neither rich nor poor. Difficulties when managing the current income of their family were stated by 60% of respondents, 36% of respondents stated that they would cope with the household budget more or less easily.

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Satisfaction with Certain Aspects of Life and Social Conditions in the CR

Discontent with the current situation prevailed in the majority of the investigated areas. The only exceptions with respect to that were represented by the accession of the CR to the EU, the school system and health care system. The highest discontent was expressed in connection with corruption and unemployment where this feeling was declared by more than three quarters of respondents. In comparison to this the evaluation of the current state of social security, efficiency of the state economy, immigration issues, legal environment, involvement of people to have a say in public affairs, efficiency of offices and the standard of living were considerably less unfavourable, despite the fact that this in isolation was also evaluated in a mostly negative way.

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Parties and voters

Those polled who preferred or sympathised with a particular political party (829 respondents) were, as part of an October survey, asked a repeated question examining the intensity of the relation with this political party.

Only 12% of voters classified themselves as staunch party supporters. Traditionally, the largest group approving of most of party activities consistently amounted to between 40 and 50% of those polled.

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