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Czech Public on Kosovo
Červenka, Jan
March survey of CVVM was dealing with a situation related to recent unilateral declaration of independence of Serbian province of Kosovo. In retrospect just 19 % of Czechs agree with NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia nine years ago, 49 % disagree and 32 % are undecided. 34 % of citizens approve Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence, 36 % oppose it. According to 36 % of respondents Czech government should have recognized Kosovo diplomatically, 34 % are against official recognition of Kosovo's independence. 46 % of Czech think that unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo will lead to new armed conflict in Balkans, 58 % agree that the event will serve elsewhere as a precedent to other minorities with secessionist agenda.
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Party Preferences and Voting Model in March 2008
Kunštát, Daniel
In March survey CVVM investigated how people trust to political Parties and whether they are willing to take part in elections to Chamber of Deputies. In the press release there are two different types of information : Party preference and a model of voting behaviour. Party preferences give us information about public sympathy with political Parties in the group of citizens who have voting right and there is also included a part of citizens who will not take part in elections or they do not knot who to vote for. Voting model indicate anticipated result of elections to Chamber of Deputies in the time of the survey. Voting model comes out of Party preferences but it includes only those who want to take part in elections and they answered us a Party they would vote for – in short this group does not include undecided people and non – voters.
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Public opinion on chosen causes of criminal behavior
Veselský, Michal
Another question on the prision system topic, posed in march 2008 CVVM survey concern on the causes of crime. As a major factors influencing criminal behavior were chosen tendency to agressive behavior (82 % mark it as a „fundamental“ or „important“) and reluctance to work (81 %). Followed by mental disorder (40 %), race and nationality (30 %) and exaggerated ambitions (30 %). Another possibilities was low education (26 %), region (19 %), low parent‘s education (17 %), lack of talent (14 %), to be from poor familly (13 %), being agnostic (13 %), and gender (10 %).
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Belief and satisfaction of Czechs with UN, EU and NATO
Dimitrová, Michaela
In February 2008 CVVM probed situation in Czech society concerning trust and satisfaction with some international institutions – concretely United Nations, European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Most Czechs trust to UN (59 %), after that follows EU with 55 % of believing citizens and NATO with 44 %. The same order is also in context of satisfaction with membership in these organizations. 67 % of Czechs feel satisfaction with UN, in related to EU it is 61 % and finally with NATO 48 % of citizens are satisfied.
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Taxation in View of Public Opinion
Červenka, Jan
9 % of citizens regard taxation on high-income earners as high, 20 % say it is adequate and 61 % think it is low. Taxation on average-income earners is considered to be high by 47 % of respondents, adequate by 42 % and low by 4 % of citizens. Taxation on low-income earners was supposed to be high by 72 %, adequate by 18 % and low by 3 %. 75 % of respondents think that tax rate should be higher for high-income earners than for low-income earners.
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Evaluation of the situation in some areas and expected development of these areas in year 2008
Veselský, Michal
The situation is the same as in previous years. People are most satisfied with supply of goods and services (73 % of respondents expressed their satisfaction), with current situation of Czech culture (58 %) and with relationships of the Czech Republic with foreign countries (45 %). On the contrary dissatisfaction prevails with such areas as a corruption and economical criminality. 73 % of Czech citizens are dissatisfied with economical criminality and 79 % of people are discontented with corruption. In comparism to situation in January 2007 the evaluation of social welfare has worsened by 23 % and dissatisfaction with health service grew by 16 %. On the contrary dissatisfaction with unemployment was reduced by 21%.
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Public opinion on imprisonment
Veselský, Michal
In march 2008 CVVM focused on prision system. Informants were asked to decide which facilities should be availiable for prisioners. People are willing to allow medical service (95 % agree on that it should be availiable for all prisioners), 92 % have the same opinion on clean clothes, 83 % agree on books for all (additional 14 % only for minor offenses) and 72 % thought that cooked meal should be accessible for each prisioner (18 % minor offenses). On the other hand 91 % of informants claimed that alcohol should be forbidden for all prisioners. Another 86 % think that prisioners should not be allowed to refuse to work, 85 % claimed mobil phones to be prohibited and 81 % declined possibility of having computer in the cell.
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The Czech public about smoking
Škodová, Markéta
In february survey made by CVVM there were some questions about public attitudes to smoking. The respondents were asked to say if and how many cigarettes they smoke. They were also asked to rate their personal attitude toward the prohibition of smoking in public places or in the restaurants. CVVM could compare results of public opinion surveys in Hungary and Slovakia.
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Party Preferences and Voting Model in February 2008
Kunštát, Daniel
In February survey CVVM investigated how people trust to political Parties and whether they are willing to take part in elections to Chamber of Deputies. In the press release there are two different types of information : Party preference and a model of voting behaviour. Party preferences give us information about public sympathy with political Parties in the group of citizens who have voting right and there is also included a part of citizens who will not take part in elections or they do not knot who to vote for. Voting model indicate anticipated result of elections to Chamber of Deputies in the time of the survey. Voting model comes out of Party preferences but it includes only those who want to take part in elections and they answered us a Party they would vote for – in short this group does not include undecided people and non – voters.
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