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Unemployment as Viewed by the General Public

Respondents were asked several questions concerning unemployment in the May census of the CPOR. The first question was to survey how the inhabitants assess the current level of unemployment in the CR. As our results show, about two thirds of Czech inhabitants over 15 consider the unemployment in the CR to be too high, 26% considered it to be adequate, and only 2% of citizens think that the unemployment in our country is too low.

The respondents mostly stated that people were unemployed because they could not find a suitable job (49%). A similar size group of respondents stated that people were unemployed because they were not interested in work (22%) or because they could not find any job at all (24%).