Current situation ‘big threat’ to economy

According to the vast majority (78.2 percent) of respondents, the current situation is a big threat to the Polish economy, Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) announced on May 20. According to 19 percent of the pollees, the threat to the economy is average, while 2.4 percent of the surveyed people declared that the threat was small and 0.4 percent stated there was no danger.

Almost a third (29.3 percent) of the respondents said that the current epidemiological situation poses a serious threat to their personal financial situation as compared to 42.6 percent who believe that the threat is average. Even as 19.8 percent of pollees declared a small threat, 8.3 percent think there is no threat to their private fiscal life.

Of all those that took part in the study, 58.3 percent were employed. Of the employed respondents, 9.8 percent said that they feel a strong fear of losing their jobs or business. As many as 24.3 percent and 37.5 percent of employed people are categorized under “possible” and “rather not” respectively when asked about their fear of losing jobs. Whereas 25.7 percent of working pollees are not afraid, 2.7 percent had no opinion.

(PAP)