Summary information

Study title

Attitudes to Questions of Environmental Protection 1994

Creator

Institut für praxisorientierte Sozialforschung (IPOS), Mannheim

Study number / PID

ZA2584, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2584 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitude to environmental protection and waste disposal in Eastern and Western Germany. Topics: 1. Questions on environmental protection: most important political problem of the country; satisfaction scale for the Federal Government and the Federal Ministry for the Environment; assessment of the development of the environmental situation; perspective for environmental conditions in the eastern part of the country as well as in the west of Germany; most important environmental problems for the future; 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, soil protection, protection of the ozone layer, sources of energy and education to conduct appropriate for the environment (scale); perceived noise pollution through automobile traffic, air traffic, train traffic, industrial noise, loud neighbors or a sport facility; judgement on the effort of the municipalities, the government, business, industry, citizen initiatives and citizens for environmental protection (scale); desire for more laws to protect the environment; adequate surveillance of observance of environmental protection laws; preferred responsibility in surveillance of the laws for the federal government, states or municipalities; attitude to the demand of the environment summit in Rio for increased expenditures by the Federal Republic for environmental protection measures in the third world; attitude to an environmental tax for users of gasoline and preferred amount for such a tax; attitude to a speed limit on freeways; preferred maximum speed limit on freeways; attitude to centers of town free of cars; experience with traffic jams in the last month; traffic jams on the way to work; preference for road construction or reduction in...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

03/1994 - 04/1994

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

In the west: sample according to the RLD procedure (randomize last digit). In the east: multi-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Telephone interview with standardized questionnaire in the west and oral survey with standardized questionnaire in the east

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1995

Terms of data access

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

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