Economical

According to November 2012 survey 11 % of citizens regard taxation on high-income earners as high, 21 % say it is adequate and 61 % think it is low. Taxation on average-income earners is considered to be high by 48 % of respondents, adequate by 44 % and low by 4 % of citizens. Taxation on low-income earners was supposed to be high by 75 %, adequate by 19 % and low by 1 %. 74 % of respondents think that tax rate should be higher for high-income earners than for low-income earners.

November's survey of CVVM comprised a bloc of questions concerning the social policy. Within this bloc, we posed a question, in what extent the state should take care of social security of its citizens. Subsequently, a set of questions was asked investigating, how the citizens evaluate the level of security in different areas of social policy. Approximately four fifth (82 %) of all population evaluate the social policy in the Czech Republic as rather or very wrong.

According to the November survey of CVVM, 70% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 24% view it as neither good nor bad and 5% consider it to be good.

In October 2012 Public Opinion Research Centre's survey investigated views of Czech citizens on some social conditions.

In October survey Public Opinion Research Centre examined how Czech citizens see the financial situation of their households.

According to the October survey of CVVM, 69% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 25% view it as neither good nor bad and 5% consider it to be good.

According to the September survey of CVVM, 70% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 23% view it as neither good nor bad and 6% consider it to be good.

In June 2012 CVVM investigated, how Czech citizens evaluate material living conditions of their households and economic situation in the Czech Republic. In July comparable surveys on this theme were carried out also in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.

In June survey CVVM investigated eventual behaviour in the course of finding of a new job in the case of being unemployed.

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In its regular survey ‘Our society’ in June 2012 the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on the reputation of 26 selected occupations. The most prestigious occupation according to the opinion of the Czech population is a medicine doctor, followed by a scholar, a university educator, a nurse and a teacher on basic school.