Public opinion research centre performs representative public opinion surveys about social-economic questions:

Vacations and business trips survey

In collaboration with the Department of Market service statistics, within the frame of CR 3-04 survey, we collect informations about vacations and business trips of the SR inhabitants at the age of 15 and above. This survey has a quarterly periodicity and is also harmonized with EU requirements and includes destination, time, sojourn?s length, expenses and transportation indications. Informations from survey are published once per quarter in SU SR monthly bulletin and are available also for Eurostat.

Hidden economy in informal sector

A basis for estimating the measure of hidden economy, which is realized by combining several methods, is performed once a year (generally in June) from 1996 by Public opinion research centre in collaboration with Infostat. Through public opinion research, the expenses of undocumented (without invoice) goods and service shopping are detected. As well cumshaw and payoff expenses are monitored.

Customer Barometer survey

Customer Barometer survey is a component of the harmonized agenda of economic and consumption inquiries, which are realized in EU member countries and incoming EU member countries, too. Through identical questions posed at the same time we can obtain informations about manufacturers´, merchanters´ and customers´ market sentiment, which are used to predict further economic development (economic sentiment indicator). The surveys are realized every month and are coordinated and supported by the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) of the European Commission. According to these data, the consumer confidence indicator is calculated, which evidences about consumption atmosphere in the country. Thanks to homogenous methodics, temporal and international comparison is possible.

Drug addiction

In collaboration with the General secretariat of the Council of ministers for drug addictions and drug controlling, Public opinion research centre realizes from 1994 in biennial interval an opinion poll, in which, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) methodics, monitors drug abuse prevalence, including alcohol and smoking, among the whole SR population, youth of SR at the age of 15 to 29 and finally youth of Bratislava (the capital of SR). The surveys probe the availability of drugs, how respondents experience threat of drugs, peril and harmfulness of the drug addictions.

Actual social events

UVVM in its surveys concerns in actual situation in Slovakia, monitors citizens´ interest in parliament elections, in EU parliament elections, in presidential and communal elections, periodically maps political preferences and credibility of politicians. Informative reports about actual events can be found on the website http://www.statistics.sk/.