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  • 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.
  • General Questions

  • This question will help in explaining potential limitations and possibilities for energy saving based on whether a person is a homeowner or a renter.
  • This question helps to establish what the starting point is and gives us an indication of the potential for further energy savings.
  • 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.
  • This answer may help us in defining a baseline to compare this year's consumption and changes between years.
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  • 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.
  • 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)
  • (only weekends)
  • 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.
  • (tick all boxes that apply)
  • 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.
  • Strongly agreeTend to agreeNeither agree nor disagreeTend to disagreeStrongly disagreeDon'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
  • Strongly agreeTend to agreeNeither agree nor disagreeTend to disagreeStrongly disagreeDon'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
    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
  • Strongly agreeTend to agreeNeither agree nor disagreeTend to disagreeStrongly disagreeDon'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
  • In your home, has any of the following energy efficiency intervention planned or been made?
    I do not knowNo, and it is not planned for the futureNo, but it is planned for the futureYes, 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
  • Strongly agreeTend to agreeNeither agree nor disagreeTend to disagreeStrongly disagreeDon'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
  • Tick all that apply
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