This research is practically a continuation of the initial research from April 2020, when practicing religion was analyzed in times of a pandemic.
A year and a half after the first survey, the idea of re-polling public opinion on the subject emerged as a need to get a fuller picture of believers' perceptions of these issues, especially as pandemic crises and protection measures often clashed with human rights and freedoms, and thus the religious rights of citizens, restrictions on religious celebrations etc.
In the early months of the 2020 pandemic, there was a lot of ambiguity and a lot of public reaction to the whole set of measures for protection against the spread of the virus. Religious communities, especially religious buildings, were also found in that block as places for mass gatherings. It was from this aspect that the need for the first research was conducted in April 2020.
This time in this research, in addition to aiming to present comparative data, there is another aspect, and that is vaccination and the attitude of believers to vaccination, as well as whether their religion influenced their decisions, whether and how behaved religious representatives.
We appreciate that this period between the two studies is a good enough distance to see the believers' attitude about the pandemic, then and now, as well as to see their perception of the role of religious communities in a pandemic, then and now.
The results of the research show interesting comparative data on how believers and religious communities deal with such crises, but also what is more important how believers perceive protection measures on the one hand, and on the other hand how they perceive the decisions of religious communities on such crises.
The very idea of this research was to analyze several aspects.
The first aspect is the approach of the religious communities, their attitude towards the crisis, their coordination with the health authorities and their attitude towards the believers in such situations.
The other aspect of the research was the perception of the believers towards the vaccination, the attitude of the believers and the religious representatives towards vaccination.
The third aspect of the research is a combination of questions from the previous research with a set of new questions related to the pandemic, the attitude of the believers and the practice of religion.
The research was conducted by telephone on a representative sample of 1125 respondents older than 18 years. The marginal error is between +/- 3.2% with a 95% confidence interval.
