Public Opinion Poll, September 2015
In 2014, support for the death penalty in Serbia has topped 50% for the first time since SACP has been testing Serbian public opinion. This year, it started dropping, albeit by only 3 per cent. On the other hand, the percentage of opponents has increased more substantially, by nine per cent.
This year’s results:
When the undecided are excluded, 62% of respondents were for the death penalty and 38% against it (in 2014, the respective figures were 70 : 30):
Last year’s sudden increase in support for the death penalty has now been halted:
As usual, women are against the death penalty more often than men:
For the first time, younger respondents are not against the death penalty more often than the older ones. As many as 65% of those under 30 support capital punishment:
There are no major differences between respondents who vote for different political parties:
Urban respondents oppose capital punishment more often than those from the rural areas:
Regionally, the highest percentage of those opposing capital punihsment live in Belgrade – this year, Belgrade respondents were divided 50:50 (w/o undecided). The support for capital punihment is much higher in the Central Serbia and Vojvodina, with no perceptible difference between those two regions:
For the first time, there was no substanital difference between respondents of different educational levels:
The poll („face-to-face“ survey of public opinion – omnibus) was administered by Ipsos Strategic Marketing, using the same methodology as in the past six years, on a nationally representative sample (three-stage random representative stratified sample), from 25 September to 4 October 2014. The number of respondents in the realized sample was 1,033. The integral report is available here.