Environment an increasing influence on French people's attitudes

Environment an increasing influence on French people's attitudes - 02 march 2006 - 09:20

ENVIRONMENT FRENCH PEOPLE - The environment, an increasing influence on French people's attitudes and actions Environmentally favourable habits are increasingly becoming a part of French people's everyday life. A large majority of households now sort their waste and pay attention to their consumption of electricity and water for a better environment. Buying organic produce, using low energy light bulbs or thinking about waste produced when making a purchase are less common at present, but are increasingly catching on.

Environment in France : The degree to which French people are adopting ‘green' habits relates partly to their level of affluence, but also to environmental awareness. This ‘miniportrait' emerges from the January 2005 ‘enquête permanente sur les conditions de vie des ménages' (the ongoing survey of household lifestyles carried out by the INSEE, France's National Institute of Statistics).

Environment an increasing influence on French people's attitudes

Environment integrates more and more with gestures and with attitudes of the Frenchmen. Environmental practices become established furthermore within the daily life of the Frenchmen. Whether it is on the waste sorting or attention in the consumption of electricity and water, these attitudes is consequently adopted by a broad majority of French household. The purchase of organic produce, the equipment in blisters low consumption or attention in the quantity of waste during a purchase are less played but tend to spread in France. The degree of adoption of "green" gestures by the Frenchmen is function of a kind of social wealth and their feelings in environment. This appraisal was raised by Ifen from the permanent inquiry into the living conditions of household, accomplished by the French national institute of statistics and economic studies in January, 2005. Environmental practices, as waste sorting or attention carried in the consumption of water or energy, become established more and more in the daily life of the Frenchmen.

According to the French Institute of environment (Ifen), environment enters therefore more and more the attitudes of the French. Environment integrates with the attitudes of the Frenchman Pour l' Ifen, the waste sorting is installed well, while new practices develop. Three household of four asserts sorting out their waste regularly. The sorting of the glass (77 %) entered morals for a long time. It is joined little by little by that of the used piles (73 %, against 24 % in 1998), of some paper (71 % against 36 %) and some plastic (71 % against 20 %). The systematic stopping of the day before television (69 %) or provision of a bag or shopping bag to go shopping (63 %) are spread enough, as well as attention in its electricity consumption (84 %) and of water (77 %) and taking into account of the consumption of energy during the purchase of a household appliance (59 %). According to Ifen, purchase of organic produce, blisters low consumption remains not much spread. Not enough household declares to buy existent products of the organic farming (21 %) or of blisters low consumption (15 %), probably because they cost more a lot to the purchase. Pay attention to the quantity of waste which implicates the purchase of a good are also not much spread (17 %). These practices concern especially the most implicated household, those who declare 10 environmental practices at least of 14 (34 % of the Frenchmen).

About 8 Frenchmen on 10 declare to perform 7 environmental practices and more. On average, household declares to perform 8 practices among the 14 selected players. 77 % of them declare 7 and more. On the whole, the adoption of behaviours favourable to environment is linked to a certain social wealth. It appears more within possessing household, living in couple, in which one to the of more than 30 years old, reference person, awards a diploma. The age of the reference person and the composition of household influence the number of adopted practices more particularly. Among household performing a small number of environmental practices (between 0 and 6 on the 14 selected players), they find more often than the average of the only persons, who have between 15 and 30 years. Likelihood so that a household adopts 6 practices and less is twice as well brought up if the reference person is less than 30 years old than if she has between 41 and 50 years, other things being equal (see methodology). In the comparing, likelihood to adopt a big number of environmental practices (between 10 and 14) is much weaker for a household the reference person of which is less than 30 years old than if she has between 41 and 50 years. The composition of household is decisive: the only persons and single-parent families declare not enough practices compared with household living in couple. Performing household not enough practices are more often tenants (53 % against 37 % at national level), while those who hard inserted environment into their daily gestures are often possessing and live rather out of Paris and Île-de-France.

The inhabitants of small slots often adopt less behaviours favourable to environment. The place of residence is having an influence: to live in the urban unit of Paris augments likelihood distinctly to declare not enough practices while they are more numerous at household living in small agglomerations. The household of urban units of less than 20 000 inhabitants has a more well brought up likelihood to be part of categories having most practices (+32 %) in comparison with those of urban units of more than 100 000 inhabitants. According to Ifen, there is a favourable effect of the small cities. In effect, the adoption of environmental practices is also linked to the size of the agglomeration of residence. It is made easier in small urban units. It is less frequent in big agglomerations, particularly that of Paris.

For the Frenchmen who do not feel concerned by environment, they declare not to act in his favour if it takes time to them or costs them some silver. These Frenchmen are rather young persons (less than 30 years), single men, students or unemployed persons with weak incomes and urban. For the Frenchmen who claim to be preoccupied by the state of environment but who get involved not much in his respect, they think that our behaviours harm environment and declare so ready to discuss these problems within their household. On the other hand, they grant not make « what is good for environment, even if it takes them more time ». The Frenchmen of this class have a contour similar to previous. For the Frenchmen who feel implicated in environment, they assert acting to protect it. They declare especially practices linked to the waste sorting and to attention. For the Frenchmen who are very hired in favour of environment, they apparently assert acting for environment whatever are the restrictions of time or silver. These Frenchmen are older than average, married and are also retired more often. They are more often possessing of their slot the surface of which is important.

Regarding Ifen : The French Institute of environment (Ifen), established in Orléans, is a service with national competence attached directly to the minister of Ecology and the Sustainable development (decree n ° 2004-936 of August 30th, 2004 creating a service with national competence in the ministry of Ecology and the Sustainable development and carrying dissolution of the national public establishment called " French Institute of environment " and stopped of December 16th, 2004 relating to the organization and the functioning of the French Institute of environment). It organizes and enlivens collection and data processing on environment and natural and technological risks with the aim of production and with information broadcasting on environment. This function of animation and organization practises in relation to the network of the major producers and users of environmental information. It develops and harmonizes accruing methods in the data processing, in the building of statistics, in synergy between statistics and geographical information, in elaboration and production of the environmental indicators and indicators of sustainable development in the domains of competences of the ministry loaded with Environment. It participates in elaboration and in administration of elements necessary for the constitution of environmental information. It accomplishes studies tending to ameliorate the knowledge of the state of environment and its evolution, notably by the elaboration of indicators, models of prediction and analyses or contributes to their realization. It participates in elaboration and in implementation of national, European and international programs of observation and surveillance. Ifen is the statistical service of the ministry loaded with Environment in the sense of the law of June 7th, 1951. It notably carries out, in the name of the State, inquiries concerning environment envisaged in the annual program established by the national Council of statistical information and stopped by the ministry from which is recovering the Central Statistical Office.

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