Public Opinion Poll, September 2013
The second poll taken this year in Serbia shows a decrease in the support for the death penalty. In comparison with March 2013, the support has decreased by four per cent. Nontheless, the supporters of the death penalty are still a majority – 53% against 47% of those who have a formed opinion on the issue.
The percentage of undecided respondents is slightly lower than in March – 19 per cent. Distribution of responses in the whole sample was as follows:
Since 2001, the support for capital punishment in Serbia (w/o undecided) has varied from 44 to 57 per cent (March 2003). In September 2013 it was measured at 53%.
When the undecided are included, the graph looks like this:
As usual, women are against the death penalty more often than the men:
A majority of the younger respondents are against the death penalty, while the older respondents support it more often:
Among the voters for the left, the opposition to the death penalty is still stronger than among those who vote for the right, although their absolute number has decreased somewhat:
City dwellers appose the death penalty significantly more often than respondents from the rural regions:
Viewed by different regions, the respondents from Central Serbia srongly support the death penalty, those from Vojvodina are split fifty-fifty, while a majority of Belgraders are against it:
The poll („face-to-face“ survey of public opinion – omnibus) was administered by Ipsos Strategic Marketing, using the sae methodology as in the past six years, on a nationally representative sample (three-stage random representative stratified sample), from 14 to 20 September 2013. The number of respondents in the realized sample was 1,059. The integral report is available here.