42/2021
2022-01-03
Confidence in NATO
CBOS has been measuring Polish people’s confidence in NATO since 2014. From the time of the last survey, in February 2020, there has been a significant drop in confidence, which is now at an all-time low. Almost half the respondents (49%, a drop of 19 percentage points) believe Poland can be sure of the full involvement of our allies if it proved necessary to defend our borders, while over a third (36%, a rise of 13 points) – the most so far – are of the opposite opinion. The only time that confidence in NATO’s support has been almost as low was in September 2014, during the first year of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine (more specifically, after the Newport summit at which representatives of the allied nations condemned Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine).
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More on this subject in the CBOS report.
This ‘Current Events and Problems’ survey (380) 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.
– 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 29 November and 12 December 2021 inclusive on a sample of 1063 people (47.0% using the CAPI method, 35.7% CATI and 17.3% 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.
