| LATESTPUBLICATIONS Polish Public Opinion March 2022
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| Attitude to Government in March
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| The 25th Anniversary of the Polish Constitution
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| Opinions about Public Institutions
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| The Political Scene in Spring 2022 – Electoral Alternatives and Negative Electorates
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| Political Party Preferences in April
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| Lent and Easter in 2022
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| Poles about Support for Fighting Ukraine
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| Opinions about Parliament and President
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Religious Practice during Lent and Easter
| Since the last survey two years ago, there has been a clear change in Polish people’s participation in religious practices over Lent and Easter. Percentages of those taking part in each of the practices included in the survey are significantly lower, from 7 to as many as 15 percentage points. Unchangingly, the most people are those who fast on Good Friday (75%, a drop of 10 points), just over half go to confession at Easter (54%, a drop of 15 points) or receive ash on their forehead on Ash Wednesday (54%, a drop of 12 points). Almost a half of Poles takes part in some church services during the Paschal Triduum, which starts in the evening of Maundy Thursday and closes with evening prayer on Easter Sunday (48%, a drop of 10 points), while around two fifths participate in a retreat during Lent (43%, a drop of 8 points), the devotions of the Way of the Cross or the (specifically Polish) Bitter Lamentations (43%, a drop of 10 points) and the Easter Vigil (39%, a drop of 7 points)
| It is also worth noticing that these are the lowest results since CBOS records began (in 2006). While a downward trend had been observed earlier in certain practices (going to confession, participation in a retreat or an Easter Vigil procession), in certain other cases the drop is rather unexpected. This concerns the Good Friday fast in particular: for years around 85% of people observed it, now this has dropped by 10 points. This sharp downturn could be connected with a general decrease in practising Catholics, which has noticeably accelerated since May 2020. It could of course be linked to the pandemic – though the easing of restrictions has not had any significant effect here. It can also be linked to sex scandals within the Church seeing the light of day, or the active role of the Church in the culture wars of recent years.
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| More on this subject in the CBOS report.
| This ‘Current Events and Problems’ survey (383) was conducted using a mixed-mode procedure on a representative sample of named adult residents of Poland, randomly selected from the National Identity Number (PESEL) register. Respondents independently selected one of the following methods: Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI); - Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI), respondents receiving researchers’ telephone numbers in an introductory letter from CBOS; Computer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI), where respondents filled in the online questionnaire independently, gaining access by means of a login and password provided in an introductory letter from CBOS.
| In all three cases the questionnaire had the same structure and comprised the same questions. The survey was carried out between 28 February and 10 March 2022 inclusive on a sample of 1078 people (56% using the CAPI method, 28.4% CATI and 15.6% CAWI).
| CBOS has been conducting statutory research using the above procedure since May 2020, stating in each case the percentage of personal, telephone and internet interviews.
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