Table 1. Demographic profile of respondents.
Demographic variables | Total sample (n = 30,170) | Subsample 1: environmentally active citizens (n = 17,233) | Subsample 2: environmentally inactive citizens (n = 12,937) | χ2 tests: subsample 1 vs. 2 | |||
χ2 | d.f. | p | Phi/Cramer's V | ||||
Gender | 7.72 | 1 | 0.005 | 0.016 | |||
Male | 45.6% | 44.9% | 46.5% | ||||
Female | 54.4% | 55.1% | 53.5% | ||||
Age | 150.39 | 5 | <0.001 | 0.071 | |||
15–24 | 12.6% | 10.8% | 15.1% | ||||
25–34 | 15.1% | 15.0% | 15.2% | ||||
35–44 | 17.2% | 18.0% | 16.2% | ||||
45–54 | 17.3% | 17.9% | 16.5% | ||||
55–64 | 16.9% | 17.7% | 15.8% | ||||
65+ years | 20.9% | 20.7% | 21.2% | ||||
Education (age at which respondents stopped full-time education) | 528.37 | 5 | <0.001 | 0.132 | |||
No full-time education | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.8% | ||||
15– years | 21.9% | 19.7% | 24.8% | ||||
16–19 | 41.7% | 41.3% | 42.3% | ||||
20+ years | 25.3% | 29.5% | 19.7% | ||||
Still studying | 8.4% | 7.7% | 9.3% | ||||
Refusal/DK | 2.2% | 1.6% | 3.1% | ||||
Political ideology | 659.16 | 3 | <0.001 | 0.148 | |||
Left/liberal | 24.1% | 27.1% | 20.3% | ||||
Moderate | 30.2% | 31.7% | 28.3% | ||||
Right/conservative | 24.6% | 25.3% | 23.8% | ||||
Refusal/DK | 21.0% | 16.0% | 27.7% |