In April, the economic sentiment index measured by the Budapest-based GKI Economic Research Co. jumped to its level in spring 2019, well before the COVID crisis. This level has only been reached in one month since the crisis, in October 2021. According to the empirical survey conducted by GKI Economic Research Co. with the support […]

Mexicans, Argentinians, Peruvians, Colombians and Chileans, for example, are more interested in what is happening in the country under attack than Hungarians, according to an international survey by Ipsos. Compared with the data from the countries surveyed, a much higher proportion of our fellow countrymen (28 percentage points higher than the international average) think that […]

More than three quarters of Hungarians believe that the country should produce its energy needs at home and not depend on other countries, especially Russian gas, according to a recent opinion poll commissioned by Greenpeace and conducted by the Policy Solutions Institute and ZRI Závech Research in the last week of March. Greenpeace therefore expects […]

42 % of Hungarians who work from home at least one day a week are planning to renovate their homes to make their environment more suitable for telecommuting, and 48 % have already made some improvements for this purpose, according to a Hungarian survey sent to the state news agency MTI on Monday. The representative […]

The perception of the European Union is basically positive both in the EU and in Hungary. Almost half of people in Hungary have a positive opinion of the EU, and just over one in seven have a negative opinion, according to the latest findings by Eurobarometer that regularly conducts public opinion surveys on behalf of […]

The Russian-Ukrainian war is also putting the construction industry in Hungary in a difficult situation, raising prices for domestic construction materials and making it impossible to import products, and slowing down construction work, according to the results of a recent sectoral economic survey. The President of the National Association of Construction Contractors (ÉVOSZ), László Koji, […]

The last two years have seen a surge in the popularity of online shopping. In a representative survey, eMAG, the online retailer, has found out who, what and why they buy on online marketplaces: 89% of the respondents spend at least a few times a year on marketplaces, and more than a third shop on […]

In Hungary, the car is still the most important means of mobility, two thirds of Hungarians cannot imagine their lives without it, a representative survey commissioned by Robert Bosch and conducted by Medián shows. As the financial news suite portfolio.hu reports, the just published survey that examined car ownership habits and attitudes towards electromobility shows […]

The turnover of Mapei Ltd., a distributor of building materials, increased in Hungary by 22% year-on-year to HUF 27.7 billion last year, and is expected to reach HUF 33 billion this year, up 19%. The company's managing director, Béla Markovich, presented the company's research on the shortage of construction professionals at a press conference in […]

When asked about future car purchases, 72% of Hungarian car buyers say they would choose either a hybrid or electric car. This figure is 44 points higher than the percentage of Hungarians who said they would buy a diesel or petrol vehicle (28%). More specifically, 37% would purchase a hybrid vehicle and 35% would opt […]

Online sales of food, household goods and drugstore products grew by almost 45% in Hungary in the first nine months of last year, and this sector grew fastest in online retail in 2021, according to a research by GKI Digital Online Retail Big Picture. According to the summary sent to the state news agency MTI, […]

Half of the people surveyed in Hungary are in favor of compulsory vaccination, while the other half are against it, and one in ten unvaccinated people would take the vaccine if they could choose between the types, according to a Publicus Institute survey commissioned by the daily Népszava. As the research shows, 72% of the […]

67% of Hungarians are in favor of stricter government measures that impose changes on people’s behaviour (three points higher than last year) to address climate emergency, according to the 2021-2022 Climate Survey, commissioned by the European Investment Bank (EIB), that explores people’s views on climate change in a rapidly changing world. The vast majority of […]

Slightly more than half of Hungarians are currently optimistic and will not change their travel plans for the summer of next year, according to a survey conducted by Pulzus for the business news site napi.hu. Although the coronavirus epidemic is seasonal and there are typically fewer people infected in the summer, many people cancelled trips […]

The latest Eurobarometer survey on the scientific literacy of Hungarians has some interesting lessons: according to the results reviewed by Qubit, Hungary, along with Romania and Italy, has the highest proportion of people (31%) who think that the earliest humans lived on Earth at the same time as dinosaurs. But there are other tidbits, the […]