39.9% and 27.6% of the 424 respondents agreed that traffic/lack of traffic enforcement along with cost of living are the two biggest problems in Malta, respectively.

Meanwhile, 49.2% agreed that neither the Labour Party, nor the Nationalist Party or ADPD could efficiently handle the problems.

When it comes to personal problems, the answers were inverted. Respondents said that cost of living / financial issues (57.3%) and traffic (38%) are the two major problems that they are individually facing. Again, 53.8% agreed that no political party could deal with these problems well.

The survey looked at individuals with different ages, occupations, genders, sexual orientations, regions of residency, religions, 2022 party votes (PN, PL, ADPD, voted or not and regretted their vote or not) and potential party votes – the answers were further broken down according to these factors.

Age-wise, the brackets ranged from 16 to 65 and over. The majority of age groups up to 64 agreed that traffic and a lack of its enforcement is Malta’s biggest problem. While those in the 65 and over category had its majority vote on the cost of living to be the island’s major issue.

In fact, the pensioners category argued for the same problem, seemingly implying that pensions do not support current living costs.

Traffic and cost of living, over development, corruption and over population took the third, fourth and fifth place of the country’s two biggest problems.

On the other hand, while the majority said that no political party could deal best with the issue, 28.4% of respondents said that PL would be the better option, 15.8% voted PN and 6.7% voted ADPD.

The age groups voting for none of the political parties all had similar majorities, however those over 65 had a 47.1% majority arguing that PL would fare best at dealing with the aforementioned problems.

Taking the question of personal problems into account, cost of living/financial issues, traffic, low income, work-life balance and the environment are the top five issues plaguing individuals’ personal lives respectively.

Yet again, 53.8% agreed that no political party could deal with their problems effectively.

Similarly, out of the three featured parties PL got the most votes (25.4%), followed by PN (17.3%) and ADPD (3.5%).

This survey was conducted among a random sample of 457 respondents between the 9th March and 11th March. Interviews were conducted on the telephone by trained interviewers under the direct supervision of MISCO coordinators. Respondents were selected using the random digit dialling method. 

A total of 574 persons were contacted to achieve a sample of 457 respondents. A sample of 457 provides a margin of error within ±4.7%. However when one applies the weighting efficiency resulting from the weighting of the data by age, gender and region, the margin of error increases to ±5.4%. The weighting efficiency is the amount of skewing that had to be done to align the sample to the actual population data.

Do you agree with the majority responses?