Economical

In January 2015 Public Opinion Research centre investigated, how Czech citizens evaluate material living conditions of their households and economic situation in the Czech Republic. During January of 2015 comparable surveys on this theme were carried out also in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.

Less than half (45%) of people believe that for the income of their household they can buy or pay less than a year ago, 45% believe that the real income of their households is about the same as a year before, and only 8% of respondents said that their real income during the last year has increased. 44% of Czech citizens consider current inflation to be acceptable, 39% of people share the opposite opinion. 55% of Czechs expect that this year they will be able to buy less goods and pay less services for the same amount of money than the last year.

In January 2015, the Public Opinion Research Centre investigated views on the problem of indebtment. We surveyed the opinion on the level of indebtment among the Czech citizens and on the level of indebtment of the Czech state. With regard to these two fields of indebtment, we also asked questions about how serious a problem the current level of indebtment poses to the Czech people.

According to the January survey of CVVM, 38% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 41% view it as neither good nor bad, and 19% consider it to be good.

November's survey of CVVM comprised a bloc of questions concerning public opinion on the pension system in the Czech Republic and its possible change. We asked a selected part of our respondents that are not yet retired, whether they use any form of savings or investments to put money aside for their retirement, whether they fear they might not be sufficiently secured when retired, and what are their expectations regarding the sufficiency of pensions paid by the state.

November survey of CVVM comprised a bloc of questions concerning public opinion on the pension system in the Czech Republic. 73% of citizens express opinion that the current pension system needs a change.

In the November research CVVM examined closely the views of citizens on the pension system and pension reform. This press release presents some of the general attitudes of people older than 15 years to the retirement system.

According to the December survey of CVVM, 40% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 41% view it as neither good nor bad, and 18% consider it to be good.

In the November survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre included issues related to social policy. It surveyed citizens' views on that how much the individual areas of social policy are secured. At the same time the block of questions included an item, in which citizens had to comment the social policy as a whole.

November survey of CVVM dealt with the topic of family policy. We asked, in what extent the goverment takes care of the social situation of families with children. In addition to it we made an inquiry about the opinion on specific measures that may be used as a support for families with children.

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