Table 1.
Variable Recodes from Pew survey identifiers.
| Pew data identifier |
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|---|---|---|
| Variable name | Value | |
| SOM Variables | ||
| Wind farms | ENV2f, ENV2g | – |
| Solar panel farms | ENV2d | – |
| Hydraulic fracturing | ENV2e | – |
| Coal mining | ENV2c | – |
| Offshore oil & gas | ENV2a | – |
| Nuclear power plants | ENV2b | – |
| Dependent Variables | ||
| Alternative energy | EN1 | 1,2 |
| Clean energy only | EN2 | 1,2 |
| Political Variables | ||
| Liberal Democrat (ref) | PARTYSUMIDEO_FINAL | 4 |
| Mod/Con Democrat | PARTYSUMIDEO_FINAL | 3 |
| Lib/Mod Republican | PARTYSUMIDEO_FINAL | 2 |
| Conservative Republican | PARTYSUMIDEO_FINAL | 1 |
| Control Variables | ||
| Income Cat | INC_SDT1 | – |
| Female/Other | GENDER | 2,3 |
| White (ref) | RACE | 1 |
| Hispanic | RACE | 3 |
| African American | RACE | 2 |
| Other | RACE | 4,5 |
| Degree | EDUCCAT | 1 |
| Region South (ref) | CREGION | 2 |
| Region NE | CREGION | 1 |
| Region Midwest | CREGION | 3 |
| Region West | CREGION | 4 |
| Attend Church | ATTEND | – |
| Born Again | BORN | 1 |
| Silent Generation | GENERATIONS | 2 |
| Boomer Generation (ref) | GENERATIONS | 3 |
| Generation X | GENERATIONS | 4 |
| Millennials | GENERATIONS | 5 |
| Generation Z | GENERATIONS | 6 |
| c) Economic Variables | ||
| Economy now | ECON1 | – |
| Economy future | ECON1B | – |
| Grow jobs, economy | CCPROPd | – |
| Consumer costs low | CCPROPe | – |
| d) Energy/Climate Variables | ||
| Wind cost | WINDa | – |
| Wind reliability | WINDb | – |
| Wind good for envir. | WINDc | – |
| Wind knowledge | WINDHRD | – |
| Solar cost | SOLARa | – |
| Solar reliability | SOLARb | – |
| Solar good for envir. | SOLARc | – |
| Solar knowledge | SOLARHRD | – |
| Humans cause climate change | EN7 | – |
*WIND and SOLAR questions were asked to half the survey respondents.