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In September survey more than a two thirds of respondents expressed their opinion that everybody has a chance to get such education according to his or her abilities. Then respondents had to answer a question, what circumstances and various facts influence educational background. Respondents often suppose human abilities and diligence to be important, when trying to get higher education. In other part of survey respondents had to talk about their own educational background.

In August 2009 CVVM SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., replicated some of the questions about the issue of science and research, which were asked in February 2006. This press release maps the public's interest in results of scientific work, attitudes of citizens towards the availability of these results to general public and towards the position of the Czech science in global context. The respondents were also asked what, in their opinion, Czech science misses.

In August 2009 CVVM investigated on the public attitudes towards the change of financing Czech science and scientific research. Majority (61 % of respondents) considered current budget for science as an unsufficient and 53 % thought that state should increase its expenses on science.

Attached survey report offers information about the image of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic among Czech public, especially with regard to its perceived credibility, usefulness and quality of its research activities. Also it addresses attitudes of the public towards the current funding and expectations of the public for the case of prepared decrease of funding thru state budget.

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Science in the Czech Republic has a positive image among Czech public; it is considered to be at high quality and important. On the other hand, people are more critical in case of its funding. The part of the public, which is more familiar with the topic, evaluate science and research in the Czech Republic and also the institution of Academy of Science of the Czech Republic more positively than the others and also in a more urgent manner perceives problems of its current funding and more calls for responsibility of the state for further development.

In May survey Centre for Public Opinion Research SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., asked respondents about their attitude to death penalty. As a part of this press information the answers of respondents are sorted according to socio-demographic indicators a there is also time comparison with results from previous results, because this question has been a part of continual CVVM surveys since 1992.

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In May 2009, CVVM survey focused on public opinion on rights of gays and lesbians such as right to get married, right for registered partnership and right for children adoption. As a part of this press release the answers were sorted according to socio-demographic indicators and according to answer on a question whether a respondent knows a gay or a lesbian personally.

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In May 2009, Centre for Public Opinion Research asked questions about environment and its protection. Czech citizens should evaluate activity of Czech Republic in this area and also activities of some state institutions and ecological organizations in these questions. Concretely we were interested in opinions of Czechs on activity of Government, Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, Parliament, Regional Offices, Municipal Offices.

In May 2009 CVVM cocerned on chosen environmental issues. People were more satisfied with state of environment at their place of residence (70 %) than in Czech republic in general (58 %). Respondents were most satisfied with accessability of free nature (84 % "satisfied"), quality of drinking water (78 %) and cleanness of nature (72 %). On the other hand respondents were dissatisfied with impact of density of traffic on the environment (67 % "dissatisfied").

Within May survey CVVM focused on the environment. The survey also investigated how Czech citizens evaluate relevancy of some problems related to global environment. As a most important problemes were marked cumulation of garbage (95 % „very + fairly important problem“), polution of drinking water (95 %), lack of drinking water (90 %) and disappearance of rain forests (89 %). Public opinion is divided on question of nuclear power plants (45 % „very + fairly important problem“ vs.