Overview
- The ICIP presented results on November 4 from a survey of 2,763 adult residents of Catalonia conducted between June 23 and July 23, 2025.
- 63% say prison terms should be tougher to reduce crime, and 51% support applying tougher measures that include expulsion for immigrant offenders.
- Views on immigration are ambivalent: 58% see economic benefits and 57% reject cultural-threat claims, while 46% believe immigrants commit more crimes than natives.
- Security perceptions have worsened, with 50% saying their municipality is less safe than a year ago and 64% saying the same for Catalonia; vandalism, drug trafficking, theft and home occupations are cited as frequent problems, and 56% call occupations common.
- Geopolitical and social attitudes shift: 77% rate growing U.S. influence as a high risk to global peace, support for defense spending has risen versus prior surveys though many oppose a 2% of GDP target, and youth show more punitive and anti‑feminist views including 27% who call gender violence a feminist invention.