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As a part of March CVVM survey there was a question investigating citizens' trust to Courts, Police, Army, Media, Labour Unions, Churches, Banks and NGOs. The press information covers also a longterm development of trust to these public institutions.

In January and February this year, respondents of the Public Opinion Research Centre evaluated the state of some areas of public life. People were the most satisfied with supply of goods and services (65 % "satisfied"), culture (60 % "satisfied") and membership in the European Union (53 % "satisfied"). Dissatisfaction was related mainly to health service (79 % "dissatisfied"), corruption (74 % "dissatisfied") and unemployment (72 % "dissatisfied").

In December survey of CVVM, respondents had to assess a impact of selected groups of people in the Czech Republic. They said views on threats of war, epidemics or natural disasters also. At the end, addressing citizens evaluated which countries represent a threat to the Czech Republic and which guarantee security and stability.

The September survey of CVVM contained several questions aimed at the general political orientation of the citizens. 27 % of Czechs feel to be close to social democracy, 15 % prefer liberal and 12 % conservative ideology. These were followed by ecological approach to politics (7 %), communist (5 %), Christian-democratic (4 %), and socialist (4 %) ideologies.

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As a part of September CVVM survey there was a question investigating citizens' trust to Courts, Police, Army, Media, Labour Unions, Churches, Banks and NGOs. The press information covers also a longterm development of trust to these public institutions.

In the March survey CVVM researched what the public thinks about corruption among public officials.

As a part of March CVVM survey there was a question investigating citizens' trust to Courts, Police, Army, Media, Labour Unions, Churches, Banks and NGOs. The press information covers also a longterm development of trust to these public institutions since 1993.

In January and February this year, respondents of the Center for Public Opinion Research evaluated the state of some areas of public life.

In December survey of CVVM respondents had to assess menace impact of selected groups in the Czech Republic. They were also collected views on threats by war, epidemics or natural disasters. Addressing citizens also evaluated which countries represent a threat to the Czech Republic and which to guarantee security and stability.

At the beginning of the next year, it will pass seventeen years since Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In its regular survey ‘Our society’ in November 2009 the Public Opinion Research Centre examined how this historic event is viewed nowadays. Sixteen years ago, only 26 % of Czech citizens agreed with the break-up, while 48 % were opposed and 26 % do not know according to their current statements.