Only 2.3% of the respondents describe the situation in the country as very good, 11.7% consider it as mostly good, while 45.2% believe it is mostly bad and 37.4% believe it is very bad; 1.9% did not know the answer and 1.6% gave no answer.
The survey, conducted on the ground in the form of interviews on March 19-May 16, covered 1,000 adult respondents at 143 locations.
As for personal expectations, the respondents are more optimistic about their personal situation than about the general situation in society.
The survey shows that 5.9% of the respondents expect their personal situation to significantly deteriorate in the next two-three years, 12.6% expect it to deteriorate to some extent, while 46% believe it will not change.
That their personal situation will improve to a certain extent is a view held by 27.4% of the respondents, 2.6% believe it will improve significantly, 4.8% cannot assess if it will improve, and only 0.8% did not give an answer.
That the situation in Croatia will deteriorate significantly is what 12.7% of the respondents believe, 16.8% believe it will deteriorate to some extent, and 39% believe it will remain the same; 22.1% believe it will improve to some extent, only 1.5% believe it will improve dramatically, 5.1% were unable to give an estimate, and 2.9% gave no answer.
The respondents trust the army and the Church the most, and they place the least trust in the parliament, government and political parties.
On a scale of one to ten, the army was given a score of 5.62, the Church 5.23, the President of the Republic 4.89, followed by the police with a score of 4.49, the European Parliament (4.07), the judiciary (3.18), the parliament (2.52), the government (2.40), and political parties (2.05).
On a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 standing for the extreme left, 5 for the centre (neither left nor right), and 10 for the extreme right, 26.7% of the respondents chose 5, 2.9% declared themselves as supporting the extreme left, and 6.1% the extreme right. Twenty-four percent of the respondents said they did not know or did not give an answer.
A total of 16.2% of the respondents favour left policies (0-4 on the scale), while 33.1% favour right political options (6-10 on the scale).
If elections were to be called today, 52.7% of citizens would participate in them. Twenty-one percent said they would vote for the same political camp, 4.3% said they would vote for a different one, 17.4% said that even though they had voted in the last elections, they would not vote now, and 4.6% said that they would vote now even though they had not voted in the last elections.
The ongoing protest of a part of disabled Homeland War veterans outside the Veterans' Affairs Ministry in Zagreb is a frequent political topic, and the institute's survey shows that opinions on that protest are divided - 30.1% of the respondents believe the protest is not justified, 11.9% believe it is partially unjustified, 26% believe it is partially justified, 14% believe it is completely justified, while 17.7% said they did not know and 0.2% would not give any answer. The Institute said the survey was conducted before the meeting between the protesting veterans and the government.
As for the question if the protest and counter-protests had a political background, most respondents said they did not know, notably with regard to counter-protests (66.4%). Nearly one in four respondents believe the protest was instigated by the opposition Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party (22.2%), while 8.8% said counter-protests were instigated by the ruling Social Democratic Party (SDP). One in four respondents did not believe either the protest or the counter-protests had anything to do with politics.
As for the lease or sale of national resources - water, forests, farmland and islands - a vast majority believe they should continue to be owned by the state.
Asked if they planned to leave Croatia soon to live abroad, 60.7% said they did not plan such a thing, 22.9% said they thought about it sometimes, 10.9% said they thought about it frequently, while 4.9% said they planned and definitely wanted to leave the country.
On a scale of one to four as to which media they followed for political information, most respondents said they trusted the Internet (2.56), followed by radio (2.45), television (2.35) and newspapers (2.31).