Terrorism is still the main worry in Spain

However, people's worries about terrorism have reduced by 2.4 percent, although it is still ahead of unemployment. These two are both way ahead of immigration and housing.

According to figures from the CIS barometer for February, the controversy surrounding the case of De Juana Chaos, the ETA terrorist, is the principal worry for Spaniards, although the general worry about terrorism has diminished.

Terrorism was cited by 42.5 percent of those questioned, as opposed to 44.9 percent in January, when it returned to the top of the list of major worries.

The last time terrorism occupied this position was December 2004.
In second place, and gaining on terrorism, was unemployment, which went from 37.6 percent in January to 40.5 percent in February.
This is the only concern which rose in percentage, the rest of the problems fell but all retained their places on the list.
Immigration remains in third position with 32.9 percent, in comparison with 34.5 percent in January, followed by housing which fell nearly three percentage points to 27 percent.

In the upper regions of the list, citizen insecurity made a comeback with 15.9 percent, and financial problems, which were mentioned by 15.7 percent of those questioned.

Next came politics and the political parties which, for the second consecutive month, were the seventh problem which worried Spaniards most, with 11.3 percent, more than one percentage point less than in January.

With regard to this, almost 40 percent of those questioned said that they thought the political situation in Spain hadn't changed, 26.5 percent thought it was worse and 13.5 percent thought it was much worse.

There were very few optimists in this category, with 12 percent saying they thought that the political situation in Spain was good and just six percent saying that it was very good.

Their thoughts on the future were not good either. Only 12.2 percent of those questioned thought that the political situation would improve within a year, while nearly 21 percent said that it would get worse.

On this point the majority, nearly 50 percent, thought that the situation would stay the same.
With regard to the problems which most affect the daily lives on the Spanish, housing, with 22.5 percent, came top of the list, while terrorism, with 9.4 percent, fell to seventh place on this list, the same position which it occupied in January.

Unemployment, financial difficulties and immigration occupy the top positions of the list of subjective problems for Spaniards behind housing.