Private Environmental Protection 1987

Attitude to environmental protection and personal willingness to take
measures for environmental protection.

Topics: political areas with currently the greatest problems.

Size class of car used; self-assessment of extent to which informed about
tax support for low-emission cars; interest in equipping personal car
with a catalytic converter; consideration of tax advantages and
additional costs of installation of a catalytic converter; frequency of
freeway use; attitude to a speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour, also
as contribution to saving forests; attitude to foregoing Sunday drives
as well as to a general prohibition of car driving on Sundays once each
month or quarter; perceived alternatives to car driving; local means of
passenger transport with greatest significance for the future.

Most important aspects in purchase of food and beverages; most
important demands of food packaging; sensitivity to products free from
harmful substances; influence of a government stamp of quality for
environmentally friendly products on one´s own purchase decision;
willingness to pay higher prices for environmentally friendly products.

Reading about threats to the environment; adequate measures of the
Federal Government for environmental protection; estimate of the
proportion of the population that voluntarily concerns itself with
environmental protection; assumed increase or decrease in this part of
the population; personal contribution to environmental protection or
preference for solution on the part of government; expected development
of environmental quality in the future; personal impairment from
harmful substances in the environment; long-term radiation burden from
the reactor accident in Chernobyl; perceived personal radiation burden
from this accident; importance of selected environmental protection
measures, from animal protection to garbage disposal to protection of
ground water (scale); areas of environmental protection in which
special problems are expected and in which there was progress in the
last few years; designation of the areas in which one would accept
higher prices, fees or taxes for improvement in environmental quality;
personal participation in recycling or collection of waste paper,
textiles, used glass, aluminium and used iron; importance and personal
difficulties in the separate disposal of selected domestic trash;
preference for the use of collection centers or collection of this
trash at home.

Attitude to energy saving in the household (scale); interest in
information on measures to save energy in the household; perceived
personal opportunities to save energy; personal measures to save
energy in the last 10 years; major obstacles in conducting
measures to save energy; certain water supply or perceived supply
problems in the future; importance of conservation in use of water.

Party preference (Sunday question) and behavior at the polls in the
last Federal Parliament election; employment in the civil service.

Also encoded were: ZIP (postal) code and Identification of
interviewer.