ICPSR Instructional Subset: FEA Survey 18--Surveys of Public Attitudes and Response to Federal Energy Policy, 1974-1976

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This instructional subset contains information from one of the 42 series of the Surveys of Public Attitudes and Response to Federal Energy Policy conducted for the United States Federal Energy Administration by the Opinion Research Corporation of Princeton, New Jersey. The surveys were administered as part of a program to ascertain on a timely basis the American public's knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, motivations, preferences, and behavior regarding issues of energy conservation and the environment. The topical coverage of the surveys dealt with the public's perception of the role of the federal government in the energy policy area, personal knowledge and sources of information about energy, perceptions of actual or potential government action, and personal efforts to conserve energy. Information was also obtained on the respondents' behavior with regard to home insulation, driving habits, and the use of mass transit. Items in this subset focus primarily on public attitudes toward possible government energy policies, as well as expectations about the future economic and environmental conditions in the United States. Included are items that provide information on respondents' attitudes toward government pollution control devices, strip mining regulations, government spending, environmental cleanup, unemployment, and taxation of foreign oil. Other items probed respondents' views of United States' food imports and exports and the most important problem facing the country, as well as their expectations of future consumer prices, family income, and unemployment. Demographic items specify age, sex, education, race, income, employment, race, marital status, place or residence, region, political party identification, number of people in household, and membership in unions and environmental organizations. See the related collection, ICPSR INSTRUCTIONAL SUBSET: FEA SURVEY 1--SURVEYS OF PUBLIC ATTITUDES AND RESPONSE TO FEDERAL ENERGY POLICY, 1974-1976 (ICPSR 7584). Each of these subsets is a discrete independent dataset.