Aineiston nimi

Environmental Attitudes and Behaviour of South-Western Finns 1999

Aineistonumero

FSD2022

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2022

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Kouvo, Antti (University of Turku. Department of Sociology)

Sisällön kuvaus

The survey is part of local Agenda 21 programme for southwestern Finland. The programme is a global plan of action for sustainable development. The study charted environmental behaviour of southwestern Finns and different forms of, preconditions for and obstacles to environmentally friendly action.

The respondents' actions and habits that affected the environment were studied with questions about traffic, consumption, nutrition, energy, garbage disposal and hobbies in nature. The respondents were asked distances to their workplace or school and shops as well as their mode of travel. They were also requested to identify various eco-labels. The respondents described their household's waste paper, glass and bio waste recycling practices and evaluated how environmentally friendly their consumer behaviour was.

The survey examined the respondents' concern regarding social problems relating to, for example, mass unemployment, inequality and the global economy. It also charted how concerned the respondents were about environmental problems at the global and local levels. The global problems included ozone depletion, genetic engineering and population growth, while the local ones included over-enrichment (eutrophication) of the Baltic Sea and lakes, demolition of old buildings and degradation of drinking water quality. The survey also covered the respondents' opinions on the difficulty of recycling, responsibility issues relating to the environmental impacts of products, environmental legislation, private motoring, industrial emissions, the relationship between economic growth and the environment, and the importance of consumption choices made by regular people.

The respondents were asked which party they would have voted for if the parliamentary elections had been held the following day. They were also asked to state whether they had supported some environmental group or organisation in the past five years. Background variables included the respondent's gender, year of birth, basic and vocational education, municipality, type of region and accommodation, household size, number of household members aged under 15, and household's monthly income.

Asiasanat

attitudes; consumption; environmental conservation; environmental degradation; environmental quality; human behaviour; life styles; natural environment; social problems; sustainability; traffic

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Natural sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Environment and conservation (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Kerääjät

• Kouvo, Antti (University of Turku. Department of Sociology)

Tuottajat

• University of Turku. Department of Sociology
• The Agenda Office of Southwest Finland

Ajallinen kattavuus

1999

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

1999-05-01 – 1999-07-16

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

All southwestern municipalities

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

People aged between 17 and 74 living in southwestern Finland

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Probability: Stratified

The survey was carried out in two waves. During the first wave in the autumn of 1998, 30 theme interviewes were conducted. Respondents were selected on the basis of their gender, occupation, age, region of residence and education. The interviews took from half an hour to an hour. The questionnaire was based on the interviews and they were also further analysed. In the second wave, a questionnaire was sent to 1,501 people in southwestern Finland. Respondents were randomly selected in five parts. The registry office could not perform the sample selection for all the municipalities at once but in groups of ten municipalities at a time. 1,016 questionnaires were returned and 1,004 of them were usable. Non-respondents were sent a reminder letter. Women were more active in responding than men.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Vastausprosentti

66.9

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Havaintojen ja muuttujien lukumäärä

145 muuttujaa ja 1004 havaintoa.

Datan versio

2.0

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

The variable identifying municipality has been removed from the data.

Painokertoimet

There are no weight variables in the data.

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Kouvo, Antti (University of Turku): Environmental Attitudes and Behaviour of South-Western Finns 1999 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-16). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2022

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Varaumat

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Julkaisut aineistosta

Kouvo, Antti (2000). Kestävä kehitys ja käyttäytyminen Varsinais-Suomessa. Turku: Varsinais-Suomen Agendatoimisto.

Kouvo, Antti (2001). Rationaalisuutta ja rutiineja: ympäristökäyttäytyminen Varsinais-Suomessa. Turku: Turun yliopisto. Sosiologian pro gradu -tutkielma.