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Survey: Half of Romanians find communism 'a bad thing'; other half - 'a good thing'
Romanians have divided opinions concerning the effects of the communist regime, 45.5 percent of the respondents to the INSCOP survey on 'Perceptions on the communist regime' finding that it meant a ‘bad thing' for Romania, while 44.7 percent of the persons participating in the survey said it was 'a good thing.'
The share of those finding that the communist regime was ‘a good thing' increases with the age of the respondents and decreases with a higher education level of the respondents.
Thus, the persons aged 65 and over in a share of 51.7 percent answered that this regime had positive effects on Romanians, while 42.9 percent of them said it was ‘a bad thing for Romania.'
Only 34.1 percent of the young persons aged between 18 and 34 believe the communist regime was a ‘good thing' and over 50 percent of the young respondents (51.2 percent) said the regime had negative effects.
As concerns the living standard in the communist regime period compared with that of the current period, 44.4 percent of the people interviewed within the INSCOP survey believe people used to live better before 1989, 33.6 percent believe they lived in worse conditions, 15.6 percent say they lived just the same and 6.4 percent of them did not answer or said they did not know what to answer to this question.
The survey was conducted by INSCOP Research at the request of Adevarul daily, in the period November 7 - 14, 2013, the sample volume being of 1,055 persons and representative for Romania's population of 18 years of age and over.
The maximum admitted error of the data is plus/minus 3 percent, at a 95 percent confidence degree, the sample being a multi-layer probabilistic sample type.