Today, we present to you some of the results from a survey (CATI) conducted by LBM UW last week, preceding the European Parliament elections (June 3 - 6, 2024). During this survey, we asked, among other things, the opinions of Poles about what the media they use daily think about the inclusion of Ukraine into the European Union and which countries, according to these same media, are Poland's allies within the EU.
It turns out that 60% of Poles believe that the media they use support Ukraine joining the member countries of the European Union (sic!). Only 6% of Poles noticed that the media they use advocate for the answer to the aforementioned question - "Definitely not" and "No". The answer "Hard to say" was chosen by nearly 1/3 of the respondents (26%).
Regarding Poland's allies in the European Union, Poles most frequently indicated - 40% - that the media they use believe Germany to be Poland's ally in the European Union. However, this result should be interpreted in the context of the second indication by Poles. Namely, almost the same number of people answered that according to the media they use, no country in the European Union is an ally of Poland (36%). Other countries mentioned included France (8%), Hungary (5%), and Italy, Lithuania, Czech Republic, and Belgium (2% each). Slovakia and Spain were also mentioned (1%).
Interesting results, right? And we still have the analysis of the answers to questions about which media our respondents most frequently use (we asked for the names of newspapers or television and radio stations or internet portals or social media profiles/channels) and what, according to the media our respondents use, are the main tasks of the European Union? Stay tuned!
Soon more data and a research report in which we will summarize the results and subject them to a multidimensional analysis. As always. More about our reports on the website www.lbm.uw.edu.pl in the PUBLICATIONS section.
*The results obtained in the survey were weighted based on demographic data of the Polish population collected by the Central Statistical Office. Weighting involves comparing the structure of the sample of people we conducted the computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) with, in which we learned their gender, age, education, and place of residence, to the demographic structure of adult Poles. Based on this comparison, we adjusted the results (representativeness) through the process of assigning weights to the answers given to the questions, considering demographic data.
The basis for weighting was data on gender and age (obtained from the Local Data Bank, current as of 2023) and education (from the 2021 census). Due to the specific nature of the sample (survey of adults (18+), and therefore a low response rate in the group with primary education included in the GUS data (13+)) and the specificity of reporting education data of Poles, aggregate statistics are presented with weighted data excluding primary education. Additionally, the sample obtained 2 responses (1.6 per mille) from people declaring 'other' gender, for whom it was impossible to correctly estimate the weight based on GUS data. Complete raw data including primary education and people declaring the 'other' gender category will be discussed in the full CATI survey report in the methodological note on the representativeness of the survey.
