| LATESTPUBLICATIONS Polish Public Opinion December 2023
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| Perception of influence on public affairs
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| Politician of the year 2023 in Poland and in the world
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| Subjective well-being of Poles in 2023
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Secularisation in Poland
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Polish Voters 2023
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Poles in the Face of War in Ukraine
Reports | Evaluations of the Year 2023
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| Politician of the Year 2023 in Poland and in the World
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| Moods on the Job Market in December 2023
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| Psychological Wellbeing in 2023
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| Social Moods in 2023
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| Rural Inhabitants and Politics
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| Life Satisfaction in 2023
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| Assessment of the activities of the parliament, president and local authorities in January
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| Social Moods in January
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| Trust in Politicians in January
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| The First Ratings of Donald Tusk’s Cabinet
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What Poles Say about Their Incomes
| Of all the various aspects of life, the greatest increase in Polish people’s satisfaction last year was with their incomes and general financial situation, despite this being a subject that usually shows the smallest such rise. People’s responses correspond with the data of the Central Statistical Office (GUS), which show that the average nominal gross income reached its highest level ever in December 2023, at over 8,000 PLN. At the same time Polish people’s satisfaction with their incomes and general financial situation shot up by 10 percentage points on the previous year. Currently, virtually two fifths of those surveyed (39%) say they are happy with their financial position, while in December 2022 just over a quarter (29%) said this. Simultaneously the level of dissatisfaction has dropped by five points, which now gives only a fifth of adult Poles (20%) unhappy about their financial position.
| Until 2016 dissatisfaction with income was markedly higher than satisfaction, particularly in the first decade after the political transformation of 1989 (especially in the mid-1990s and around the year 2000). Later the difference between the percentages of those who were happy with their financial situation and those who were not progressively decreased. From 2016, when Law and Justice (PiS) came to power, up to the present, the percentage of those that are happy has been higher than those who are dissatisfied. Nevertheless, taking into account the general trend before that year, it would be unjustified to assume that this was simply a result of the social transfers made by PiS, although they certainly helped. It would be more accurate to interpret it as the result of a general tendency of increasing affluence among Poles. One indicator of this is the systematic growth over this period of respondents who say they are ‘fairly satisfied.’
| The increased percentage compared to the previous year of those who are satisfied has caused a drop of 5 points each in the percentages of both the dissatisfied and the fairly satisfied.
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| More on this subject in the CBOS report.
| This ‘Current Events and Problems’ survey (404) 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 November – 12 December 2023 inclusive on a sample of 961 people (56.8% using the CAPI method, 31.1% CATI and 12.1% 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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