Flash Eurobarometer 206a (Attitudes on issues related to EU Energy Policy)

Attitudes towards the energy policy of the EU.<br>Topics: concern about climate change and global warming; impact of national energy production and consumption on climate change and global warming; expected impact of the ongoing climate change on personal energy consumption in ten years’ time: need to change everyday consumption, need to install energy saving equipment in own house, need to pay higher energy prices; attitude towards the EU setting a minimum percentage for energy coming from renewable sources; preferred measure of the national government to help people reduce energy consumption: provide more information on efficient energy use, adopt stricter efficiency standards for energy consuming equipment, subsidise energy efficient solutions; influence of energy efficiency on purchasing decision with regard to household appliances; attitude towards selected kinds of support of the national government for the development of cleaner energy technologies and products: public funding, tax incentives, prohibition of products that are not up to energy efficiency standards, no support; preferred level of action to tackle energy-related issues: national, EU; attitude towards the use of nuclear energy: increase use as nuclear energy is environmentally friendly, decrease use due to safety problems; attitude towards the introduction of common EU high safety requirements for nuclear installations; preferred level for negotiations on oil and gas prices on international markets: EU, national; preferred measures in case of oil or gas shortages in selected EU member states: affected member state has to rely on own reserves, affected member state should be able to rely on reserves of other member states; importance to be able to choose electricity or gas supplier and reasons.

Demography: sex; age; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; type of community; number of fixed phone lines in the household; number of fixed phone lines in the household listed in telephone directory; number of fixed phone lines in the household used exclusively for business purposes or for electronic equipment; number of fixed phone lines in the household listed in telephone directory and used exclusively for business purposes or for electronic equipment.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; interviewer ID; language of the interview; country; date of interview; time of the beginning of the interview; duration of the interview; region; weighting factor.