Of all the monitored areas, citizens took the most negative view of the current state of corruption and security. A substantial majority of those polled (two thirds in the event of corruption) voiced their dissatisfaction with these issues. The prevalence of dissatisfaction is also quite noticeable in the assessment of the judicature and the state of the legal environment. A more critical than positive assessment is given to one’s own possibilities to participate in the decision-making process about public affairs and the functioning of authorities.

In the first half of September the president was regarded as trustworthy by 61%, Czech government by 29%, Chamber of Deputies by 22%, Senate by 21%, regional councils by 36% and local councils by 57% of the polled citizens. The last survey brought – with the exception of the president – a statistically quite significant drop of confidence in all the constitutional institutions. As far as the government is concerned, it is a long-term trend, because within the last 9 months the government has gradually lost 20 % of people, who initially considered it trustworthy.

In September, 14% of those surveyed were satisfied with the political situation, which is a drop by 6 percentage points when compared to June. 29% were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, while 52% of respondents were dissatisfied – an increase by 7 percentage points since June. People with good living standards and young people who do not yet have the right to vote more frequently belonged to the group of the satisfied.

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 structure of the answers given is summarised in the table. The question ‘Imagine that an election to the Chamber of Deputies is held next week. Would you participate?’ was answered yes by 65% of those surveyed having the right to vote (‘definitely yes’ by 36% and ‘probably yes’ by 29%), while 27% said no (14% ‘probably not’ and 13% ‘definitely not’) and 8% did not know.

Within the June research we surveyed standpoints of the Czech public towards the media. First of all we were interested in ratings of the main television news programmes. Eight out of ten respondents said that in the previous week they had seen TV Nova news at least once. About three quarters of respondents had watched "Události (Events)" (the main news broadcast of ČT1) at least once. Prima news had been seen at least once by less than a half of Czechs (46%) and ČT2 news by a third (33%).

During last year, we mostly provided help to our families (75% of respondents) and friends (55%). We also supported our acquaintances (39%) and distant relatives (29%). A third of those surveyed helped, during last year, a non-profit organisation or charity, and more than a fifth helped unknown people. Those who stated to have helped a non-profit organisation or charity last year, mentioned mostly some of the flood bank accounts, the Red Cross, Charitas – a catholic charity, the League against cancer, the Man in need organisation, ADRA, Help the children campaign or the Fund for children in danger.

The poll revealed, inter alia, that the Czech public considers petitions to be an almost generally acceptable form of protest pressure (only 10% of those polled stated they would never sign a petition), and that the majority is not opposed to boycotts or legal demonstrations. On the other hand, harsher methods of expressing dissatisfaction, such as participation in an unofficial strike, are openly supported by only three persons out of ten, while protests involving occupation of buildings are deemed acceptable by just over one tenth of the population.

In a June poll called ‘Czech society 2003’, we paid close attention to the functioning of the public administration and self-administration bodies, and to the public opinion on how legislation and the conduct of politicians can be influenced. The first question generally addressed satisfaction with the functioning of democracy. The following question dealt with satisfaction with personnel employed in the state and public sectors.

90% of those polled agree that, before making major decisions, public administration bodies should be interested in the opinion of citizens, as opposed to 7% who think that public administration bodies are here to make decisions and should not bother citizens and ask for their opinion. To a certain extent, the opinion of citizens is actively sought by local administration bodies only, while citizens are unaware of activities of other bodies of the public administration.

The June survey allocated some of its space for opinions of respondents on situation of the owners of small and medium size enterprises. The results show that two fifths (41%) consider the objections raised by the concerned groups to be justified. 28% think the opposite and almost a third (31%) do not feel to be competent to judge. Those respondents who believe that the objections raised by entrepreneurs were justified also commented on the question if certain bodies should help to solve their problems.