Male: 49%
Female: 51%
18 - 29 18%
30 - 39 17%
Interviewee age: 40 - 49 17%
50 - 59 16%
Over 60 32%
Sex
Primary school and lower: 33%
Vocational Education and Training School (2–3Education structure year courses): 17%
Four-year-long high school: 33%
College/University: 17%
Vojvodina: 27%
Belgrade: 24%
Region
Western Serbia and Šumadija: 28%
Southern and Eastern Serbia: 21%
City: 60%
Place of residence
Village: 40%
4.3.3. Context
It is important to understand the context in which the research was carried out.
Politically, it is hampered by strong tension and a hypersensitive narrative as well as by the lack
of communication between crucial political actors. This tension has permeated all of public life,
as it did not remain confined to the partisan realm, but it spread to most other areas, with a
powerful spotlight in the media. The survey was carried out in an atmosphere of efforts to
manage the Corona virus crisis, in a complex epidemiological situation and with the citizens’
concerns directed primarily to health and then the economic priority package. The survey was
conducted ten months after the election, which is a sufficiently long period for cold and rational
judgment, but not too long so that important details would not be forgotten.
Two questions were used to better understand the context in this survey: the first concerned
the direction that Serbia was moving in and the second treated how the respondents and their
families assessed their standard of living.
The country’s direction is an important indicator of the general atmosphere in society and
as such is a good framework for understanding the possible behavior of the electorate. In
present-day Serbia two out of three respondents said Serbia was moving in a good direction
and that was only a continuation of the trends going back several years. Dissatisfaction with
the direction that the country was moving in was expressed by 23% of citizens while one in
nine was without a position. Above average, the country is seen as taking good course by men
older than 50, with primary education, from Belgrade, Southern and Eastern Serbia. The
country taking a wrong course is largely cited by younger people (18-29 years and 30-39 to a
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