Relations, Attitudes

In March 2009 CVVM survey investigated Czech public's views with regard to foreigners who live in the long term or permanently in the Czech Republic. 68 % of Czechs see foreign citizens living in the Czech Republic as a problem, 23 % claim the opposite. But, when people should consider their neighbourhood, not the Czech Republic as a whole country, 53 % think foreign citizens are not a problem.

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March survey has dealt with a topic of employment of foreigners in Czech Republic. 55 % of Czechs think it is right to employ foreigners, 36 % express the opposite view. The employment of foreigners has higher approval rate among graduates and people with good living standard. On the other hand, people with bad living standard and especially jobless respondents opposed the idea more frequently.

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March survey of CVVM investigated attitudes of Czech public to some national groups that are living in the Czech Republic in significant number.

In March 2009 CVVM used some questions focused on public tolerance to some groups of people. Czechs were shown a list of 14 groups of people and they had to say, whether they would not want these people as their neighbours. Negative attitude to neighbourhood of four groups was expressed by Czech people. These groups consist of drug addicts, 85 % of Czech would not want them to be their neighbours. Four fifths of Czech citizens (79 %) would not like to live close to people with criminal past and 78 % of Czechs would not want alcoholics in their neighbourhood.

In March survey CVVM investigated Czech public's views with regard to foreigners who live in the long term or permanently in Czech Republic. 78 % of Czechs think that incomers should have had the right to stay here in the long term under some conditions, 7 % would support this right with no restricting conditions and 11 % said that foreigners should not have any right to stay in the long term in Czech Republic.

As a part of March survey made by CVVM there were some questions about public attitudes to foreigners. Majorty (61 %) claimed that foreigners living in Czech republic should become conformed to czech cultural habits as much as possible. Another 35 % of informants said that foreigners should adapt to czech cultural habits just in some aspects. And 3 % said that foreigners should be allowed to live according to their habits.

In december survey CVVM focused on people's fears. Two thirds of informants admitted that they were afraid of something. The most frequent were a fear of unemployment (32 %), a disease (23 %) and fall of living standard (17 %).

Another questions concerned on the future of personal life of informants, the future of the czech society and the future of the humankind at all. The majority was...

In December survey the CVVM focused on Czech relationship to other nations and nationalities. Respondents were shown a list with 24 nationalities and they were asked to evaluate these nationalities with marks from 1 to 7 according to their sympathies for these nationalities (1 – very sympathetic and 7-very unsympathetic). Respondents find Czechs as the most sympathetic nation (on average 1,8).

May survey of CVVM SOÚ AV ČR focused on the matter of values and their importance for Czech people.

In May survey Public Opinion Research Center focused on public opinions of women´s right to decide herself to end her pregnancy. Within the survey people also have been expressing their sentiment about acceptability or unacceptability of euthanasia. As a part of this press information there were answers sorted according to socio-demographic indicators and table with data from previous surveys.

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