Economic Development

In June 2014 Public Opinion Research centre investigated, how Czech citizens evaluate material living conditions of their households and economic situation in the Czech Republic. During summer months of 2014 comparable surveys on this theme were carried out also in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.

According to the September survey of CVVM, 44% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 39% view it as neither good nor bad, and 16% consider it to be good.

According to the June survey of CVVM, 45% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 38% view it as neither good nor bad, and 15% consider it to be good.

According to the May survey of CVVM, 47% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 38% view it as neither good nor bad, and 14% consider it to be good.

According to the April survey of CVVM, 51% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 36% view it as neither good nor bad, and 12% consider it to be good.

According to the March survey of CVVM, 53% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 35% view it as neither good nor bad, and 11% consider it to be good. 41% of Czechs evaluate the living standard of their household as good, 21% consider it to be bad, and 38% characterize it as neither good, nor bad.

In January 2014 CVVM investigated, how Czech citizens evaluate material living conditions of their households and economic situation in the Czech Republic. During January and February 2014 comparable surveys on this theme were carried out also in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.

Since February 1997 CVVM has been examined what people think about the economic standard of our country compared to nine other European countries.

According to the January survey of CVVM, 59% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 32% view it as neither good nor bad, and 8% consider it to be good.

Three fifths (60%) of people believe that for the income of their household they can buy or pay less than a year ago, 34% believe that the real income of their households is about the same as a year before, and only 5% of respondents said that their real income during the last year has increased.