Summary information

Study title

Flash Eurobarometer 256 (Europeans’ attitudes towards the issue of sustainable consumption and production)

Creator

Papacostas, Antonis (Europäische Kommission, Brüssel DG Communication, Public Opinion Analysis Sector)

Study number / PID

ZA4983, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.4983 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitudes towards sustainable consumption and production.
Topics: self-rated knowledge about environmental impact of personally used products; importance of each of the following aspects on purchasing decision: environmental impact, price, quality, brand; influence of ecolabels on personal purchasing decisions; most important information to be given by ecolabels; attitude towards ecolabels indicating the carbon footprint; most important contribution of retailers to promote environmentally friendly products; best suited taxation system to promote environmentally friendly products; action with the highest impact on solving environmental problems: purchase of products from eco-friendly production, purchase of energy efficient home appliances, use less water, minimize waste, travel less and adopt sustainable modes of transport; awareness of the EU ´Flower´ ecolabel; trust in products carrying the EU ecolabel; trust in the reporting of companies on their environmental and social performance; importance of energy efficiency in purchasing decision; attitude towards a voluntary environmental code of conduct of retailers. Demography: sex; age; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; type of community. 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; type of phone line; call history; region; weighting factor.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

21/04/2009 - 25/04/2009

Country

Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Ireland

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview
Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)
Telephone interviews were conducted in each country, with the exception of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia where both telephone and face-to-face interviews were conducted (70% webCATI and 30% F2F interviews).

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2009

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

Related publications

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