Trend Questions (October 2021): Climate Change Impacts

On behalf of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, the opinion research institute Kantar investigates attitudes towards climate protection and the assessment of political measures for climate protection on a quarterly basis. In the 4th quarter of 2021, questions on climate impacts formed a thematic focus.<br>Concerns about possible consequences of climate change; degree to which different people are affected by the consequences of climate change (respondent personally, population in Germany, population worldwide); assessment of current political measures for climate protection; informedness about possibilities to contribute to climate protection themselves; opinion on the conversion of a large car park into a seepage area for heavy rainfall; concerns about the occurrence of various disasters in one´s own region (floods, forest fires, storms/tornadoes, earthquakes, new pathogens/pandemics, terrorist attacks, chemical or reactor accidents, power outages lasting several days).

Demography: sex; age; highest level of education; occupation; household size; number of persons in the household aged 14 and over; party preference; voter eligibility; household net income (grouped); survey by mobile vs. landline.

Additionally coded: respondent ID; weighting factor; interview date; city size (BIK regions); federal state; survey area west/east.