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2022-10-10
State Response to the Ecological Disaster on the River Oders
The reaction of the Polish state to the ecological disaster developing on the River Oder since at least late July has met with a mostly negative assessment. Close to two thirds of Poles (63%) are critical, including almost two fifths (37%) who are categorically so. Just under a quarter of people surveyed (23%) are of the opposite opinion.
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Respondents’ opinions on this matter were significantly influenced by their attitude to the government. Supporters tended to be positive about the state response to the pollution of the Oder, though even among them a sizeable proportion – almost a third – expressed a negative opinion. Government opponents, on the other hand, were overwhelmingly critical, an opinion shared by a clear majority of those neutral towards the Morawiecki government.
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More on this subject in the CBOS report.
This ‘Current Events and Problems’ survey (389) 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 5–15 September 2022 inclusive on a sample of 1119 people (58% using the CAPI method, 25.3% CATI and 16.7% 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.
