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Table 16: The most important problems
First Problem Freq Second Problem Freq Third Problem Freq
economic problem 48 economic problem 38 economic problem 24
safety/crime 32 traffic 36 safety/crime 23
traffic 28 safety/crime 36 traffic 16
pollution 27 politcs/policy 18 social problems 14
social problems 18 pollution 17 pollution 13
labour/unemployment 16 social problems 17 other 13
Immigration 14 labour/unemployment 13 politcs/policy 13
politcs/policy 12 immigration 12 immigration 10
other 11 other 11 environment/water 7
environment/water 11 environment/water 9 labour/unemployment 6
public
transport/infrastructure
6
public
transport/infrastructure
4 climate change 5
drug 4 climate change 3 drug 3
climate change 3 drug 2
public
transport/infrastructure
no answer 12 ageing 2 no answer 93
no answer 24
Tot. 242 242 242
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The second question of the survey is about the importance of environmental issues. A very large frequency (92.15%)
considers important/very important the environment, in spite of the fact that this seems to contradict the answer to the
first question (Table 17). This should suggest a cautious evaluation of the importance given to the environment when
this is known to be the issue why people are interviewed and that protecting the environment is somehow an obvious
commitment.
Table 17: Environmental importance
Importance of environment
Tot
Not important 0.83%
Not important/not unimportant 6.61%
Important 50.00%
Very important 42.15%
Don't know 0.41%
After the importance of environmental issues, it is requested the perception of water scarcity problems. In the Table 18
it is shown that the problems in most cases are not considered as relevant.
Table 18: Perception of scarcity problems
Perception %
Not a problem at all 14.46%
Not a problem 30.58%
Somewhat of a problem 31.82%
A problem 15.70%
A big problem 5.37%
Don't know 2.07%
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