Environment and society
Ecological awareness

Ecological awareness: Agreement with statement in %, Switzerland by political orientation 2007

Definitions/Comments: Political orientation: Self-placement on scale from 0 (left) to 10 (right): left: values 0–3; centre: values 4–6; right: values 7–10.

Question wording: ‘I will now read you a series of statements. Please tell me, for each statement, how far you would agree. Everyone should accept cuts in the standard of living in order to protect the environment. Many of the claims about environmental threats are exaggerated’.

Answer categories: ‘strongly agree’, ‘mostly agree’, ‘neither agree nor disagree’, ‘mostly disagree’, ‘strongly disagree’. Percentages correspond to respondents who strongly/mostly agreed with the statement.

Sample size: Swiss Survey on the Environment 2007: 3369 ; weighted data.

Source: Swiss Survey on the Environment 2007, ETH Zurich.

Data for the indicator or in excel.

Description and explanation in the corresponding chapter of the Social Report 2008.