These studies are a part of our ongoing efforts to secure current data on the  opinions, extent of discrimination, degree of (in)tolerance among the citizens of Serbia, extent of prejudice and the level of social and ethnic distance between individual groups. Studies have also enabled us to measure the degree to which citizens are satisfied with the work of state institutions responsible for protection of human rights and if and to what extent they are informed of their competences and the ways in which they can contact them.