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A year with Corona apparently has the effect that only a third of the population is positive about the new year. Even looking back is sobering: Only 22 percent thought 2020 would have been a good year, according to the current study. For three-quarters of those surveyed, the year that is coming to an end was even “bad” (29 percent) or “not particularly good” (46 percent), according to the study released Monday. 60 percent started with confidence, if you use the result of the 2019 New Years survey. The change in mood that occurred over the course of this year was also reflected in the 2021 balance. Only 28 percent were confident . In contrast, 28 percent looked to the future with skepticism and 38 percent even with concern; six percent did not provide any information. Mainly women (43 percent) and the age group over 60 years (48 percent) expressed fears.
Pollsters also wanted to know why Austrians are so negative. And it wasn’t surprising that the all-dominating Corona problem is the cause. Those who are worried about the future do so mainly because of the prevailing crisis (27 percent), economic development (22 percent) and fear of their own work (17 percent). The situation is similar with the skeptics, but who mainly tormented the uncertainty (28 percent). Corona also determines the basic attitude of optimists. However, they exceed the hope of the vaccine (33 percent) and the view that it can only get better (24 percent).
According to the study, the pandemic also has an impact on personal intentions for the coming year: those two goals, “moving more” and “living more consciously”, which have been the highest priority in recent years, are even more important for 2021. won. Of the 35 percent of Austrians willing to change, 44 percent want to do more sport in the future (35 percent said this in the previous year) and 40 percent want to lead a more conscious lifestyle, which represents an increase of ten percentage points compared to the previous year. At the bottom of the personal to-do list are “drink less alcohol” (eleven percent) or “participate more politically” (9 percent).
On average, the group faced about four of them with a good head. After all, 21 percent of those surveyed managed to largely implement the goals they had set for themselves in 2019 this year. About half said this was at least partially successful. On the other hand, 28 percent said it didn’t work. By 2021, two-thirds of the population have no special plans.
IMAS surveyed 1,017 Austrians aged 16 and over in November and December.
