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In its special research, the Public Opinion Research Center focused on the coronavirus crisis and citizens' experiences with it. Special research was carried out within the Our Society project, CVVM is responsible for the questions and design of the survey, data were collected by Median. In May, more than four-fifths (85%) of Czech citizens over the age of 18 were interested in the situation regarding the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

In March 2019 Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to foreigners. Respondents commented on foreigners who live in the Czech Republic and in their place of residence. Research also included set of questions about general attitudes connected to foreigners such as their impact on Czech culture, unemployment, health risks and economy. Respondents also evaluated whether foreigners are the solution of problem of ageing population in the Czech Republic.

In March 2020 Public Opinion Research Centre focused on social distance among the majority population and different social groups. Social distance was measured by a specific question: people should pick from a list of 15 different groups those, which they would not like to have as neighbours.

In March 2020 Public Opinion Research Centre investigated attitudes of Czech public to fourteen national groups that are living in the Czech Republic in significant number.

The most positive relation was observed to Czechs, Slovaks, and Poles, the worst relation have Czechs to Roma people and Arabs.

In March 2020 CVVM investigated Czech public's views with regard to foreigners who live in the long term or permanently in the Czech Republic. Majority (73 %) claimed that  foreigners living in the Czech Republic should become conformed to Czech cultural habits as much as possible, another of informants (24 %) said that foreigners should adapt to czech cultural habits just in some aspects. And 2 % said that foreigners should be allowed to live according to their habits.

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In March 2018 the Public Opinion Research Centre examined as a part of its survey the opinions of the Czech public on long-term or permanently residing foreigners in the Czech Republic.

Specifically, there were examined attitudes whether there are too many, appropriate amount, or too few foreigners living in the country, whether foreigners should have the right for the long-term residing in the country and whether the state should allow them to settle here permanently. There were also examined the reasons for the acceptance of immigrants and whether they should adapt to Czech customs.

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In its February survey CVVM examined attitudes of Czech citizens to roles of men and women in family. According to the Czech public opinion should be the domain of men in a family doing common household repairs. Cooking and tidying up were considered as typical women's activities.

In February Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to partnership, marriage and family. Respondents commented on specific set of statements connected to cohesion of partners, marriage, divorces and parenthood in general. We also examined the views on the optimal number of children in a family and the ideal age for men and women to become parents.

In December 2019 Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions related to health care system in its regular survey. Citizens were asked about their overall satisfaction with health care system in the Czech Republic as well as their views on the various problematic areas of healthcare, such as the financing of public health, management of drugs and functioning of insurance companies.

In December 2019 Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to health care. Questions focused mainly on satisfaction with health care in the Czech Republic, evaluation of the quality of the health care in the last year and the amount of information provided by the doctors. Respondents evaluated their own health condition and possibilities to decide the ways of their medical treatment.

With health care, 50% of citizens are satisfied, 18% are dissatisfied and 31% are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied.