Post Installation Survey | PARENT Project

Dear PARENT project participant,

We are very happy that you have joined our project and hope that you are excited about installing your Smappee, and to get started with saving energy and developing solutions with us - working towards a more sustainable future together.

Before we go further, we would like to ask you a few questions regarding your household, your lifestyle and your attitudes and values. The questionnaire will be used for the PARENT project research and policy advise purposes only.

The reason for this questionnaire is to help us better to understand motivations and barriers for sustainable energy behaviour, and to identify factors that may be linked with individuals’ interest and ability to act towards energy saving. We will be using this information to create clusters, based on anonymised data. Throughout the pilot experience, you will be able to compare your consumption with those of other households.

The questionnaire consists of 18 questions and should take around 15 minutes to complete. It is a very important part of the PARENT project and towards sustainable behaviour research, so we ask you please to complete the whole questionnaire. It is important to remind you that your data will be treated confidential and will not be transferred to any third party.

A practical note before you start: if available you may want to keep your house’s energy certificate and last year’s electricity overview on hand.

Identification

Please enter your PARENT identification code. This is the code that we gave your SMAPPEE (big white sticker on the box) consisting of 4 digits and one letter (e.g. 1234A). This is also the name of your 'location' in the Smappee interface.

Smappee Code*

General Questions

What is your housing situation?*

This question will help in explaining potential limitations and possibilities for energy saving based on whether a person is a homeowner or a renter.

Owner
Tenant
Other

Other

Does your home have an energy class certification?*

This question helps to establish what the starting point is and gives us an indication of the potential for further energy savings.

Indicate the type of heating system in your home*

The different types of heating systems require very different amounts of energy and are an important factor in energy usage that is not linked with changing behaviour.

District heating
Gas heating
Wood/fire-based heating
Electric heating
I do not have a heating system
I do not know
Other

Specify other heating system

Do you know how much electricity you consumed last year?*

This answer may help us in defining a baseline to compare this year's consumption and changes between years.

Yes
No

How many kwh?

From date:

Until date:

Sociodemographic characteristics of primary household participant

These answers help us evaluate whether age, gender and education level of an individual has an impact on his/her environmental behaviour. These factors are contested as indicators and we would like to evaluate their influence.

Age*

Gender*

Male
Female
Other

Education*

Other education

Sociodemographic characteristics of entire household

This will also explain high or low level of energy use (number of people in the house more often or less often depending on where they spend their days)

Full time from home (includes stay at home parent / home maker, job seekers and persons in retirement)

Part time out of home

Full time out of home

Student

(only weekends)

Other

Define other

ICT Usage

This question aims to see if there is link between high level of ICT appliance use / tech savviness and participation in the PARENT platform and use of the Smappee application.

Which of the following ICT appliances are present in your household?*

(tick all boxes that apply)

Personal Computer
Laptop
Smartphone
Game Console
Television
Other 1
Other 2

Please specify other1

Please specify other2

If you consider the ICT appliance that you use the most in your home, what is an approximate average use per adult in household for the week?*

Attitudes and beliefs on energy and environment

This series of questions (10-18) help us in understanding general attitudes and values towards the environment, responsibility sharing, barriers and motivators. It also helps us in understanding general attitudes and activities towards energy saving and towards community engagement. It will help us in developing solutions and advice on how to reach out to and assist different groups of people, or how to provide customised support for people who have diverse views and face different barriers towards acting more sustainably. We might for example discover that for some clusters of people economic incentives might motivate them, whereas other clusters might respond more to community based actions.

Ecological World View*

	Strongly agree	Tend to agree	Neither agree nor disagree	Tend to disagree	Strongly disagree	Don't know
Global warming is a serious problem for our society
The effects of climate change are too far in the future to really worry me
The so-called 'environmental crisis' facing humanity has been greatly exaggerated
Climate change is beyond control - it is too late to do anything about it
The increasing energy demand is a serious problem for our society
The increasing shortage of energy sources is a serious problem for our society

Attitude, barriers and motivations*

	Strongly agree	Tend to agree	Neither agree nor disagree	Tend to disagree	Strongly disagree	Don't know
The many small efforts I make to conserve energy add up to and can make a difference with regard to general energy concumption
Being green is an alternative lifestyle ; it is not for the majority
Sometimes I feel guilty about doing things that harm the environment
I need more information on what I could do to be more environmentally friendly
If government did more to tackle climate change, I would do more too
If business did more to tackle climate change, I would do more too
I find it hard to change my habits to be more environmentally friendly
It is not worth me doing things to help the environment if others don't do the same

Which of the following statements describes how you feel about your lifestyle and the environment?*

I am happy with what I do at the moment
I would like to do a little more to support the environment provided that it does not require major changes in my lifestyle
I would like to do much more to support the environment even if it requires big changes in my lifestyle
I don't know

Which of these would you say best describes your current lifestyle?*

I am actively trying to improve my current lifestyle for environmental reasons
I don’t really do anything that is environmentally friendly
I do one or two things that are environmentally friendly
I do quite a few things that are environmentally friendly
I am environmentally-friendly in most things or everything I do
I don't know

Examples of environmentally friendly activities: buy regularly organic food, buy locally produced products, avoid food waste, buy regularly second hand products, borrow instead of buying, buy energy efficient products, pay attention to turning off lights and electrical appliances, recycle, compost, use non-toxic cleaning products, use public transport/bike/walk

What are your energy concerns?*

	Strongly agree	Tend to agree	Neither agree nor disagree	Tend to disagree	Strongly disagree	Don't know
I am interested in reducing the cost of energy bills
I am interested in reducing the environmental impact of the energy we use
I would be interested in participating in renewable energy projects/schemes, owned either privately or collectively
I would be interested in receiving energy from renewable sources
I am interested in owning less electrical appliances
When buying new appliances, I look for energy efficiency
I know the areas of my household with the highest energy saving potential and, accordingly, I can/could optimize my consumption without any problems
I consider myself an energy aware person and I already try to minimise my household consumption

Energy Efficiency*

In your home, has any of the following energy efficiency intervention planned or been made?

	I do not know	No, and it is not planned for the future	No, but it is planned for the future	Yes, already done
Installation of high-efficiency water boiler (e.g. condensation based)
Installation of thermostatic valves
Installation of high efficiency windows
Roof insulation
Wall insulation
Replacing old light bulb lamps with LED
Replacement of old appliances with high-efficiency ones (A+)
Solar panels installed
Green electricity provider/contract

If you have other types of energy efficient solutions installed or planned, please describe

Community attitude*

	Strongly agree	Tend to agree	Neither agree nor disagree	Tend to disagree	Strongly disagree	Don't know
I feel like I belong to this neighborhood
If I were to move I would like to live in a similar place to where I live now
I read local news and am aware what is going on in my local area

Are you involved in local citizen group?*

Tick all that apply

Specify other group

Are you currently part of an association, a group, or a non-governmental organization that operate in the energy and environmental sector at national or international level?*

Yes, I pay a subscription fee or support them otherwise economically
Yes, I provide my support in form of volunteer work
Yes, I am co-organiser/ active member in meetings, activities, events
Yes, all of the above
No, I am not part of any national or international energy or environmental organization
Other

Please specify your involvement / group