Eurobarometer 51.1 (1999)

Attitudes and conduct on environmental protection.Consumer protection institutions.Topics:1. environmental protection:greatest worries, concerns and fears (rank order);significance of environmental protection and environmental pollution;most important fears and concerns in the area of environmental protection andenvironmental protection areas in which fears have increased or decreasedin the last 5 years;type and extent of the most important environmental pollutionin one's own residential surroundings;most important national environmental protection problems;most important future environmental influences on health;perceived security from natural catastrophes and technical accidentsin other European countries compared with one's own country;self-classification of extent to which informed about global as well ascurrent environmental problems;extent to which informed about conduct in emergencies,about scientific and technological developmentto eliminate environmental problems;classification of extent to which informed about measures of national orEuropean Government and of environmental protection organizations (scale);self-assessment of personal contribution to protect the environment;sources of information used in the area of environmental protection;evaluation of reliability of selected sources of information;special efforts in the search for information about the environment;assessment of the efficiency of the effort of government officesfor the environment on local, regional, national, European and world-wide level;percentage extent of readiness to pay additional costsfor selected environmentally compatible products;environmentally compatible conduct through conscious product selection,conserving water or electricity, environmentally compatible driving,separating trash (scale);laws, taxes, price increases or hoping for technical progress asmost effective measure to solve environmental problems;preferred measures to reduce traffic in the centers of town;judgement on the statement, human action leads to environmental catastrophe;environmental protection and elimination of jobs;economy and ecology as opposed.2. Consumer protection:self-assessment of extent to which informed about consumer rights;knowledge of consumer protection organizations;most important tasks of consumer protection associations;reasons for the desire for more or less influenceof consumer protection associations;most important problems of consumer associations;membership in a consumer organization;reasons for membership or non-membership;knowledge of magazines of consumer associations;reading consumer magazines;occasions at which one would make use of consumer associations;most important tasks of consumer protection associations;preference for private or public responsibilityfor the tasks of consumer protection;personal utilization of a consumer protection institution and experiences made;reasons for not making use of a consumer protection organization;preferred information channels from consumer associations to consumers;attitude to paying charges for use of consumer associations;services of associations for which there ought to be charges;amount of accepted annual fee for such services;willingness to pay for such services;preferred means of financing consumer associationsthrough member contributions, their services or the government;influence of consumer associations in comparison to otherspecial interest groups as well as in comparison to politicians and the media;assessment of the influence of consumer associations on public discussion.Demography:nationality;marital status;sex;age;number of persons in household;number of children under 15 years in household;occupational position;head of household;occupational position of head of household;residential status;household income.Also encoded was:date of interview;time of start of interview;length of interview;number of persons present during interview;willingness of respondent to cooperate;city size;regional code.