Economical

In the January 2020 survey the Public Opinion Research Centre examined three questions related to Inflation And Real Income Of Households.

44 % of people believe that for the income of their household they can buy or pay less than a year ago, 43 % believe that the real income of their households is about the same as a year before, and 12% of respondents said that their real income during the last year has increased.

47% of Czech citizens consider current inflation to be acceptable, 38% of people share the opposite opinion.

64% 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.

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In the January 2020 survey the Public Opinion Research Centre examined two questions related to evaluation of material living conditions of respondent's households, and to expectation of development of these conditions in this year.

More than one half (55%) of Czechs evaluates material living conditions of their households as good, 12% consider them to be bad, and 33% think they are "neither good, nor bad".

54% of Czechs expect no change of their current material living conditions, according to 19% they will improve, and 24% think that material living conditions of their households will worsen in this year.

According to the January 2020 survey of CVVM, 51% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as good, 35% view it as neither good nor bad, and 13% consider it to be bad.

13% of citizens think that the economic situation will improve in this year, 48% expect no change, and 34% await worsening of economic situation.

57% of Czechs evaluate the living standard of their household as good, 10% consider it to be bad, and 33% characterize it as neither good, nor bad.

In November, the Public Opinion Research Centre asked a set of questions related to attitudes of the Czech citizens towards the retirement system in the Czech Republic.

Questions focused mainly on the current condition of the retirement system and its possible changes. Respondents also expressed level of their support for concrete measures and actions within the retirement system. The last question focused on the opinion whether the received finances from the social security system can cover funding of the pensions.

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According to the December 2019 survey of CVVM, 49% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as good, 35% view it as neither good nor bad, and 15% consider it to be bad.

54% of Czechs evaluate the living standard of their household as good, 11% consider it to be bad, and 35% characterize it as neither good, nor bad.

In its December survey the Center for Public Opinion Research focused on some issues related to the pension system and pension reform. Within this thematic block respondents were presented three pairs of opposing statements expressing general attitudes to the different characteristics of the pension system. Respondents expressed their position through a five-point scale, where point 1 meant identification with the first of a pair of opposing statements and point 5, on the contrary, featured complete shift to the second statement. Individual claims were related to contradiction between principle of solidarity and merit in the pension system, whether financial security of retired people should be ensured by state or by the citizens themselves and whether the pension system in its current form is just or unjust.

The December 2019 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. It also examined public preferences concerning allocation of public funds.

In December, the Public Opinion Research Center of the Academy of Sciences interviewed citizens of the Czech Republic on topic of financial security in pension. Questions were focused not only on subjective concerns over lack of economic resources or trust in welfare state but also on actual preparations, namely investments and savings.

According to December 2019 survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre 18% of citizens regard taxation on high-income earners as high, 30% say it is adequate and 43% think it is low.

Taxation on average-income earners is considered to be high by 38% of respondents, adequate by 52% and low by 3% of citizens.

Taxation on low-income earners was supposed to be high by 58%, adequate by 32% and low by 3%. 

55% of respondents think that tax rate should be higher for high-income earners than for low-income earners.

In December 2019, the Public Opinion Research Centre asked a set of questions related to attitudes of the Czech citizens towards social policy.

Questions investigated opinions of the Czech public on the involvement of the state and the citizens themselves to funding the sphere of social policy. Other questions focused on whether the current distribution of responsibilities is divided equally between state and citizens. Finally, we were interested in opinion on the fair distribution of benefits and abuse of the social security system.

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