Economical

According to the May survey of CVVM, 67% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 26% view it as neither good nor bad and 6% consider it to be good.

According to the April survey of CVVM, 64% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 28% view it as neither good nor bad and 7% consider it to be good.

In January 2013 CVVM investigated, how Czech citizens evaluate material living conditions of their households and economic situation in the Czech Republic. About the same time comparable surveys on this theme were carried out also in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.

According to the March survey of CVVM, 64% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 27% view it as neither good nor bad and 8% consider it to be good.

According to the February survey of CVVM, 65% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 27% view it as neither good nor bad and 7% consider it to be good.

In January 2013 Public Opinion Research Centre carried out a survey about debts and loans. In this press release are published attitudes of Czech citizens to debts in different fields of common people. Another questions were focused on importance of financial resources for unexpected expenses and difficulties with the repayment of debts.

In January 2013, CVVM asked questions concerning the topic 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.

Two thirds (68%) of people believe that for the income of their household they can buy or pay less than a year ago, 26% believe that the real income of their households is about the same as a year before, and only 4% of respondents said that their real income during the last year has increased.

December’s survey of CVVM comprised a bloc of questions concerning public opinion on the pension system in the Czech Republic. This press release presents a more comprehensive analysis of what stand people take against the current pension system and the possibility of its reform. 57 % of respondents express opinion that the current pension system needs change. About one third of Czechs (33 %) approves the introduction of the second pillar of the pension system. At the same time, only 17 % of respondents agree with the current form of the pension reform.

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