Spain’s Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) has conducted its third survey on attitudes towards the welfare state, asking about public services, access to them and areas where public spending should increase. The data were collected from 10 to 17 September 2026 through 6,040 interviews.
Some 56.2% of respondents rated the performance of public transport as “very or quite satisfactory”; education received that rating from 54%, and public safety from 50.9%. By contrast, 71.7% rated forest-fire prevention and extinguishing services “not very or not at all satisfactory”, as did 69.4% for the justice services and 61.8% for support for people in need of care.
Most respondents said public authorities should spend more on healthcare (94.6%), education (92.6%) and forest-fire prevention (92.1%). Meanwhile, 68.9% did not agree that people with greater means pay more in taxes.
