Summary information

Study title

Attitudes to Questions of Environmental Protection (1992)

Creator

Institut für praxisorientierte Sozialforschung (IPOS), Mannheim

Study number / PID

ZA2394, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2394 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitude to environmental protection and waste disposal. Topics: 1. General judgement on environmental protection problems: behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election (Sunday question); personal election participation; city size; satisfaction with the achievements of the Federal Government and Ministry of the Environment in Bonn (scale); most important problems in Germany; assessment of current environmental conditions and concern for an environmental crisis; perspectives for environmental conditions in the eastern part of the country as well as in the west of Germany; willingness to sacrifice income for the benefit of improvement in environmental conditions in Germany; most important environmental problems; most important future problems; classification of automobile emissions, coal-fired power plants, private heating, industrial facilities as well as garbage incinerating plants as most important source of air pollution; importance of environmental policy measures in the area of maintaining clean air, protection of inshore waters, noise protection, trash disposal, protection of the soil, protection of the ozone layer, energy sources and education to conduct appropriate for the environment (scale); perceived noise pollution from vehicle traffic, air traffic, train traffic, industrial noise, loud neighbors or a sports facility; assessment of the effort of the municipalities, the government, businesses, industry, citizen initiatives and citizens for environmental protection (scale); desire for more laws to protect the environment; assessment of surveillance of observance of environmental protection laws; attitude to an environmental tax and preferred amount for such a tax for use of gasoline; attitude to a speed limit on freeways; preferred maximum speed limit on freeways and in built-up areas; attitude to a maximum speed limit of 30 km; attitude to centers of town free of cars; experience in traffic jams in the last month; traffic jams on the...
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Methodology

Data collection period

06/1992 - 07/1992

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Different sampling procedure in east and west: West: sample according to the RLD procedure (randomize last digit); East: multi-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire in the east telephone interview in the west

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1994

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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