Survey on Attitudes to the Environment, 1978-1980

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The purpose of this survey was to investigate the relationships between differing perceptions of environmental dangers, underlying values and social structural position of environmentalists and control groups.

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Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions Probability, seriousness and timing of a possible <i>environmental crisis</i>, scale scores of respondent's perceptions of extent of environmental dangers, industrialism as a way of life, and science and technology; Inglehart's material/post-material value markers; respondent's perceptions of an ideal society; political beliefs and activity. Attitude to taking direct action on environmental issues. Environmentalist organizations, and environmentalist literature read. Background Variables Age, length of post-school education, qualifications and occupation. Environmentalists' questionnaire only: income. Businessmen/Engineers questionnaire only: type of industry.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

list sampling

Postal survey

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-1028-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=40ff888a7fa376a92abce323496b8eb14ea4e204bd6a254d2262c1767635da4b
Provenance
Creator Duff, A., University of Bath, School of Humanities and Social Sciences; Cotgrove, S. F., University of Bath, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1978
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
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Discipline Economics; Jurisprudence; Law; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage United Kingdom