BRATISLAVA, January 2, (WEBNOVINY)- Slovakia’s inhabitants see unemployment as one of the most crucial problems currently burdening the country. Almost two-thirds of respondents in a survey recently conducted by the think tank Public Affairs Institute (IVO) consider the high jobless rate the most troublesome issue. Dissatisfaction with the standard of living felt by 50 percent of respondents ended up second while the health care problem shares the third spot with problems of corruption, cronyism, nepotism and violations of moral principles. These problems are most acute in the eyes of one–third of respondents.
IVO surveyed a representative sample of 1,030 adult inhabitants of Slovakia between November 3 and November 9. In spontaneous reactions to the question which problems people in Slovakia perceive as most serious respondents could mention three such problems. The fifth and sixth spots belong to criminality and organized crime and the problems of functioning of the economy, regarding which those polled emphasized reduction of the state debt and elimination of the consequences of the economic crisis. Political culture and quality of democracy ranked seventh. The ethnic issues dominated by problems of coexistence of Roma and non-Roma inhabitants placed eighth while education is ninth and housing issues ended up tenth.
Compared with February 2010 the public perceives less sharply corruption, cronyism, nepotism and violations of moral rules and its concerns regarding absence of an efficient macroeconomic policy are lower as well. They are less critical about the problem of political culture and quality of democracy but they perceive more sensitively imperfections of the health care system, said IVO’s Zora Butorova. She attributes these changes in perception to the development after June parliamentary elections.
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