Frequency of choosing environmentally friendly behaviours and personal consumption habits

Frequency of choosing environmentally friendly behaviours and personal consumption habits eige_care_trans__care_trans_consumption

Time format:

Years

Unit:

Percentage (comparable)

Description:

This dataset shows how frequently respondents choose each of the listed environmentally friendly options in their behaviour and consumption. The numbers indicate what percentage (%) of all respondents have selected each frequency category for each type of environmentally friendly option.

This dataset is based on the following question: ‘Generally thinking about your personal consumption and behaviour how often:’

Do you avoid plastic and/or disposable/single-use products?
Do you recycle?
Do you avoid animal products?
Are you using low carbon-emission modes of transport (cycling, public transport, car-pooling instead of your personal car)?
Do you buy sustainably or eco-friendly products and services?
Do you buy fair trade products and services?
Do you buy used instead of new items (e.g. second-hand clothes, used furniture)?
Do you prioritise seasonal and local food products?
Do you pay attention that products or packaging are recyclable or biodegradable?
Are you mindful of your consumption of natural resources (water, electricity and heating)?

For each activity/choice listed, the respondents selected one frequency category from the following list:

Always
Most of the time
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Prefer not to answer

Those choosing not to answer are excluded from the analysis.

Keywords:

environment, environmental, social activities, transport

Select all	Code	Label
	2024	2024

Select all	Code	Label
	EU27_2020	European Union - 27 countries (from 2020)
	BE	Belgium
	BG	Bulgaria
	CZ	Czechia
	DK	Denmark
	DE	Germany
	EE	Estonia
	IE	Ireland
	EL	Greece
	ES	Spain
	FR	France
	HR	Croatia
	IT	Italy
	CY	Cyprus
	LV	Latvia
	LT	Lithuania
	LU	Luxembourg
	HU	Hungary
	MT	Malta
	NL	Netherlands
	AT	Austria
	PL	Poland
	PT	Portugal
	RO	Romania
	SI	Slovenia
	SK	Slovakia
	FI	Finland
	SE	Sweden

EU27_2020

		time
geo

2024

19.6

18.8

13.7

13.1

12.5

11.7

11.6

EU27_2020

11.1

10.8

10.4

10.2

9.8

9.6

9.5

9.1

8.5

8.4

7.8

7.4

7.2

5.8

Available flags:

b	break in time series	c	confidential
d	definition differs, see metadata	e	estimated
f	forecast	i	see metadata
m	imputed	n	not significant
p	provisional	r	revised
s	Eurostat estimate	u	low reliability
x	dropped due to insufficient sample size	y	unreliable due to small sample size
z	not applicable

Frequency of choosing environmentally friendly behaviours and personal consumption habits eige_care_trans__care_trans_consumption

Time

Geographic region