Make it Green!

Make it Green! is one of the thematic pillars of EU policies. It focuses on promoting environmental sustainability and the transition to a low-carbon economy across Europe. Many measurement instruments have been developed to explore individual perceptions and attitudes towards issues such as climate change and national climate policies. Some of these measurement instruments have extensive coverage across international social surveys, countries and time points. Harmonising these data greatly improves their analytical potential since the complete time range and country coverage can be used for analyses.

The scripts we offer here enable you to compile customised, harmonised data on these topics to gain insights across a possibly high population density in Europe and Europeans’ attitude change over time. They are written in the open-source statistical software language R and are embedded into detailed guidelines that explain every data preparation and harmonisation step. You should be able to follow these steps, even when R is not the statistical software you are familiar with! If you run into any problems, please don’t hesitate to contact us via email.

To the guidelines of the selected Make it Green items:
Climate Change Worries	Data sets from the ESS and EB are harmonised. Find the item in the Variable Database here.
Earth’s Population Limit	Data sets from the EVS and ISSP are harmonised. Find the item in the Variable Database here.