The CZSO highly trusted by the public for a long-term

• The Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) enjoys trust of 60% of citizens and 24% of them mistrust it. When compared to other institutions, this evaluation is rather favourable. Among institutions that were included in the opinion poll, the CZSO was evaluated the best. Only mayors and local councils are, as for the level of trust, on a comparable level with the CZSO, or rather they have proportions of those who trust them slightly higher, however, with a clearly higher proportion of those explicitly mistrusting them.
• As regards the public awareness, work of the CZSO is mainly connected with the Population and Housing Census and a survey on the population size. However, a significant majority of citizens also connects the CZSO with processing of election results, monitoring of the economic development, or publishing and providing of surveyed information. An idea that the CZSO makes pre-election polls is a rather widespread mistake.
• A vast majority of the public considers the CZSO itself and its activity to be useful.

• The Czech public acquaints itself with information of the CZSO definitely most often in the media; however, over the last three years, their position has slightly weakened, whereas the Internet in general as well as websites of the CZSO as such have recorded an increase. 27% of respondents at least sometimes actively seek information of the CZSO on their own.

• Most of the respondents consider information provided by the CZSO to be trustworthy, accurate, and politically unbiased. However, regarding the question whether publishing of information of the CZSO is liable to influences of the political or economic situation there is a big disunity and uncertainty. This uncertainty also applies to those groups among the public, which are more experienced with the CZSO and its outputs, which have more positive approach to the CZSO, and which should be, theoretically, relatively more competent as to evaluating this question compared to the average of the population.
• The CZSO is considered to be a professional institution by three quarters of citizens.

Trust and mistrust towards the CZSO in the context of assessment of other institutions (%)


Note: The proportions “trusts” and “mistrusts” represent sums of proportions of relevant alternatives of answers “definitely (mis)trusts” and “rather (mis)trusts”. The rest up to 100% are “don’t know” answers.
 

Source: Final report from an opinion poll of the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM) called Image of the Czech Statistical Office in the View of the Czech Public – 2016 (Czech only)