Image of the Czech Statistical Office in the View of the Czech Public

 

  • The Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) enjoys trust of 61% of citizens; 23% of them mistrust it. When compared to other institutions, this evaluation is favourable. Among institutions that were included in the opinion poll, the CZSO together with the Czech National Bank ranked high only with a small gap behind mayors and local councils as for the proportion of trust while as for the CZSO there was the lowest share of those who explicitly mistrust it.

Chart 6 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.

 

  • As for 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, which is with a gap followed by the Internet in general, social media, and websites of the CZSO as such. Over a quarter (26%) of Czech citizens actively seek information of the CZSO themselves.
  • Most of the respondents consider information provided by the CZSO to be trustworthy, accurate, and politically impartial. However, there is a big disunity and uncertainty regarding the issue whether publishing of information of the CZSO is liable to influences of the political or economic situation.
  • The CZSO is considered to be a professional institution by 70% of citizens.
     

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 – 2019 (Czech only)