Over 70 per cent of participants in opinion poll in Moldova say do not intend to leave abroad for work

Chisinau, 3 October /MOLDPRES/ - More than 70 per cent of the participants in an opinion poll, conducted in last September, said that they had not worked abroad and did not intend to leave abroad to work in the next six months.    

According to the poll, unveiled today, six per cent of the respondents said they wanted to leave abroad to work, 9.5 per cent  - that they worked abroad and are set to leave in the next six months, and 11.8 per cent said that, although they had worked abroad, they did not longer want to leave abroad. Most people who worked abroad and no longer want to leave are from rural regions and people older than 45. Young people are more willing to leave, no matter the fact whether they worked abroad or not.  

Asked “How do you think, where your children can better assert themselves?”, 63.3 per cent of the respondents said that abroad, 24.5 per cent – in Moldova, and 12.3 per cent hesitated to answer.

Asked “What, according to you, the state must do for all people who left abroad to study or work want to return to Moldova?”, more than 70 per cent of the respondents pointed to the creation of new jobs, 69.3 per cent – to the increase in salaries and enhancing the living standards. Also, the participants in the poll said that the development of economy, fighting corruption, improvement of infrastructure, development of industrial enterprises would prompt young people come back home.  

The opinion poll was conducted by the CBS-AXA Centre of Sociological Investigations and Marketing, at an order by Viitorul Institute, on a representative sample of 1,109 persons, with an error margin of 2.8 per cent.   

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor A. Raileanu)