National Survey of Public Opinion of the ICHEM: Longitudinal analysis of results 2009-2012

Since 2009, the Instituto Chileno de Estudios Municipales - Chilean Instituto of Municipal Studies has carried out, as one of its main activities, a poll whose purpose is to know how the residents of local communities in Chile perceive their municipalities and the topics they are in charge of. Thereupon, it has devised questions that have been included in all of the versions of these samplings. Th present article presents a longitudinal look of the results that have come up from its main poll for the 2009-2011 term of those topics that have been relevant in the national and local agenda. Among those results, the analysis shows, with different variations, that the population perceives delinquency as the main problem that affects them. In this item, the tendency has mantained. On the other hand, the problem of Primary Health Attention has emerged recently as a central dilemma in municipalities (2010-2012). Something similar occurs with Education. Only since the two last years (2011-2012) it has become an important issue among the people surveyed in local areas.