Economic Development

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.

According to the March survey of CVVM, 56% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 32% view it as neither good nor bad and 10% consider it to be good. 41% of Czechs evaluate the living standard of their household as good, 18% consider it to be bad, and 41% characterize it as neither good, nor bad.

According to the February survey of CVVM, 58% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 31% view it as neither good nor bad and 9% consider it to be good. 42% of Czechs evaluate the living standard of their household as good, 19% consider it to be bad, and 39% characterize it as neither good, nor bad.

According to February 2011 survey 8 % of citizens regard taxation on high-income earners as high, 21 % say it is adequate and 62 % think it is low. Taxation on average-income earners is considered to be high by 35 % of respondents, adequate by 52 % and low by 5 % of citizens. Taxation on low-income earners was supposed to be high by 66 %, adequate by 23 % and low by 2 %. 70 % of respondents think that tax rate should be higher for high-income earners than for low-income earners.

Almost half (47%) of people believe that for the income of their household they can buy or pay less than a year ago, a little more than two fifths (43%) believe that the real income of their households is about the same as one year before, and less than a tenth of respondents said that their income during the last year has increased. More than a half of Czech citizens (52%) consider current...

Almost half (47%) of people believe that for the income of their household they can buy or pay less than a year ago, a little more than two fifths (43%) believe that the real income of their households is about the same as one year before, and less than a tenth of respondents said that their income during the last year has increased. More than a half of Czech citizens (52%) consider current inflation to be acceptable, roughly three tenth of people (31%) share the opposite opinion.

Since February 1997 CVVM has been examined what people think about the economic standard of our country compared to nine other European countries. 3% of Czechs assesses the economy as being very good, 47% rather good, 43% rather bad and 4% very bad. Only 3% could not judge the situation. In the ranking of countries, the Czech Republic is situated on the fourth place behind Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

According to January survey 52 % of Czechs think that economic situation of the Czech Republic became worse in 2010. 32 % of Czechs see as worsened living material conditions of their households. 58 % of respondents feel that financial crisis afflicted their household and 65 % see as affected their job. 47 % see the reaction of Czech government to present situation as bad, 36 % expressed opposite view.

According to the January survey of CVVM, 52% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 34% view it as neither good nor bad and 12% consider it to be good.

In January survey CVVM focused on some measures concerning taxes and the budget, which came into force at the beginning of 2011.