Sample | Sampling | Data Input |
New Zealand - public | Darryl Macer, Nobuko Macer | Darryl Macer |
New Zealand - medical students | D. Gareth Jones, Otago University | Darryl Macer |
New Zealand - teachers | Darryl Macer | D.M., Y.A., S.A., M.T. |
Australia - public | Darryl Macer, Nobuko Macer, Ron Rich | Darryl Macer |
Australia - medical students | Peter Singer, Monash University | Darryl Macer |
Australia - teachers | Darryl Macer | D.M., Y.A., S.A., M.T. |
Japan - public | Darryl Macer, Nobuko Macer, Yuko Kato | Yuko Kato |
Japan - medical students | Michio Hirayama, Norio Fujiki, Fukui Medical School;
Hideo Hayashi, University of Tsukuba | Yuko Kato |
Japan - teachers | D. M., Y. Asada, S. Akiyama, M. Tsuzuki | Y.A., S.A., M.T. |
India - public, students | Jayapaul Azariah, Hilda Azariah, University of Madras | D.M., S.A., M.T.,Y.A. |
Thailand - public, students | Peerasak Srivines & Prasert Chatwachirawong, Kasetsart University | D.M., S.A., M.T. |
Russia - public | Vijay Kaushik, Russian Academy of Sciences | Vijay Kaushik |
Israel - public | Frank Leavitt, Ben Gurion University | Darryl Macer |
Philippines - medical students | Angeles T. Alora, University of San Tomas | D.M., M.T. |
Singapore - students | Lim Tit Meng, University of Singapore
Ong Chin Choon, Singapore Polytech | Darryl Macer |
Hong Kong - students | Maureen Boost, Hong Kong Polytechnic | Darryl Macer |
Table 2: Occupation of samples
Student samples (NZ, A, J, In, T, S, P, HK) were all University students. All the university students in the In and T samples were made into separate student samples.
Occupation (%'s) | NZ | A | J | In | T | R | Is |
Housewife | 11.8 | 8.4 | 16.0 | 4.4 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 |
Retired | 23.4 | 20.1 | 8.8 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Farmer | 4.3 | 4.2 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Teacher | 7.6 | 5.8 | 6.4 | 18.6 | 10.6 | 12.3 | 12 |
Government | 0.9 | 1.1 | 14.9 | 1.1 | 60.2 | 1.9 | 0 |
Company | 7.0 | 8.5 | 21.3 | 4.6 | 8.1 | 1.9 | 2 |
University / Research | 1.5 | 5.3 | 1.8 | 24.2 | 17.4 | 29.2 | 6 |
Unistudent | 8.5 | 8.5 | 11.1 | 0 | 0 | 7.6 | 30 |
HSstudent | 1.8 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 8 |
Administrator | 4.6 | 9.0 | 0.3 | 5.2 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 2 |
Self-employed | 3.6 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 4 |
Arts | 2.1 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 2.8 | 2 |
Counselor | 2.1 | 1.6 | 0 | 4.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0 |
Engineer | 3.6 | 4.2 | 1.5 | 5.7 | 0.2 | 17.5 | 2 |
Medical | 7.6 | 9.0 | 1.8 | 7.0 | 0 | 5.2 | 28 |
Unemployed | 0.6 | 2.1 | 0 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
Other | 3.3 | 3.2 | 9.0 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0 |
Not stated | 5.2 | 10.0 | 3.7 | 15.7 | 0.3 | 14.9 | 2 |
NZ | A | J | J91 | In | T | R | Is | NZ | A | J | In | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js | |
N | 329 | 201 | 352 | 551 | 568 | 689 | 446 | 50 | 96 | 110 | 435 | 325 | 232 | 164 | 250 | 104 | 206 | 96 | 251 | 114 | 560 | 383 |
%1 | 22 | 13 | 23 | 26 | - | 36 | 43 | low | 60 | 70 | 66 | - | 50 | 70 | 80 | 52 | 61 | 28 | 47 | 21 | 37 | 26 |
Time2 | 3/93 | 3/93 | 3/93 | 7/91 | 7/93 | 9/93 | 4/93 | 11/93 | 3/93 | 3/93 | 6/93 | 7/93 | 9/93 | 8/93 | 10/93 | 12/93 | 8/93 | 8/93 | 8/93 | 8/93 | 7/93 | 7/93 |
Male | 41 | 45 | 52 | 53 | 61 | 48 | 36 | 38 | 41 | 50 | 67 | 53 | 42 | 46 | 23 | 45 | 64 | 62 | 48 | 63 | 88 | 92 |
Female | 59 | 55 | 48 | 47 | 39 | 52 | 64 | 62 | 59 | 50 | 33 | 47 | 58 | 54 | 77 | 55 | 36 | 38 | 52 | 37 | 12 | 8 |
Rural3 | 23 | 29 | 27 | - | 22 | 54 | - | 20 | 15 | 11 | 51 | 15 | 42 | 13 | 4 | 12 | 69 | 27 | 25 | 21 | 37 | 34 |
Urban | 77 | 71 | 73 | - | 78 | 46 | 90+ | 80 | 85 | 89 | 49 | 85 | 58 | 87 | 96 | 88 | 31 | 73 | 75 | 79 | 63 | 66 |
Age (years) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Mean | 47.4 | 45.2 | 41.7 | 39.8 | 30.6 | 37.2 | 36.3 | 33.4 | 20.8 | 18.1 | 21.1 | 21.8 | 21.3 | 21.1 | 19.3 | 21.0 | 40.8 | 42.5 | 41.8 | 42.0 | 40.7 | 40.0 |
<20 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0.5 | 9 | 11 | 38 | 92 | 29 | 22 | 20 | 3 | 69 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
<30 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 24 | 55 | 18 | 28 | 37 | 60 | 8 | 70 | 77 | 80 | 97 | 31 | 90 | 33 | 35 | 29 | 29 | 17 | 15 |
<40 | 15 | 20 | 26 | 23 | 22 | 43 | 28 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 40 | 40 | 46 | 34 | 34 |
<50 | 14 | 15 | 19 | 25 | 13 | 31 | 17 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 25 | 32 |
<60 | 15 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 17 |
61+ | 33 | 29 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 0.2 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Marital status | ||||||||||||||||||||||
single | 25 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 53 | 38 | 33 | 34 | 95 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 22 | 24 |
Married | 59 | 62 | 66 | 66 | 45 | 59 | 54 | 62 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 83 | 86 | 79 | 70 | 77 | 75 |
Div/wid. | 13 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0.2 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
Other | 3 | 3 | 0.3 | 1 | 2 | 0.3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0.6 |
Children | ||||||||||||||||||||||
No child | 33 | 39 | 40 | 35 | 55 | 22 | 41 | 48 | 97 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 96 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 22 | 15 | 24 | 24 | 30 | 28 |
Pregnant | 1.4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
One | 8 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 16 | 24 | 29 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 13 |
Two | 26 | 25 | 36 | 32 | 19 | 39 | 24 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 38 | 31 | 27 | 36 | 40 |
>2 child | 31 | 29 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 38 | 32 | 35 | 18 | 18 |
Education | ||||||||||||||||||||||
High school | 43 | 36 | 37 | 37 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 16 | 29 | 94 | 54 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 23 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
2 year
college | 18 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 20 | 48 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 0 | 77 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 |
graduate | 25 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 35 | 37 | 39 | 20 | 2 | 38 | 27 | 60 | 50 | 0 | 6 | 64 | 58 | 59 | 57 | 78 | 82 |
postgrad. | 9 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 52 | 59 | 28 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 13 | 47 | 0 | 8 | 30 | 37 | 39 | 41 | 21 | 17 |
other | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.3 |
How important is religion? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Very | 27 | 23 | 10 | - | 40 | 46 | 10 | 38 | 28 | 19 | 5 | 36 | 54 | 89 | 32 | 21 | 20 | 17 | 42 | 47 | 7 | 10 |
Some | 26 | 27 | 33 | - | 27 | 44 | 38 | 16 | 20 | 41 | 16 | 24 | 38 | 11 | 41 | 40 | 17 | 29 | 23 | 26 | 25 | 37 |
Not too | 27 | 24 | 40 | - | 15 | 8 | 28 | 34 | 18 | 20 | 34 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 22 | 26 | 33 | 32 | 19 | 10 | 45 | 36 |
Not at all | 20 | 26 | 17 | - | 18 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 34 | 20 | 45 | 22 | 0.4 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 30 | 22 | 16 | 17 | 23 | 17 |
Religion | ||||||||||||||||||||||
None | 25 | 25 | 39 | - | 2 | 0.2 | 20 | 0 | 45 | 32 | 68 | 3 | 0.4 | 0 | 25 | 60 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Christian | 70 | 71 | 8 | - | 34 | 0.4 | 57 | 0 | 49 | 41 | 5 | 24 | 1.7 | 99 | 24 | 40 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Moslem | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 4 | 0.6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0.4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Buddhist | 0.3 | 1 | 47 | - | 0.4 | 99 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 0 | 97 | 1 | 36 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Hindu | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 59 | 0 | 0 | Jew: | 0 | 2 | 0 | 65 | 0.4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Other | 5 | 4 | 6 | - | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 98 | 3 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 0.4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Race | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Caucasian | 92 | 91 | 0 | - | 0.2 | 0 | - | 43 | 79 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 94 | 93 | 95 | 98 | - | - |
Asian | 1 | 2 | 100 | - | 5 | 92 | - | 23 | 11 | 23 | 100 | 4 | 79 | 98 | 95 | 99 | 0.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
African | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | - | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Indian | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | - | 94 | 0 | - | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Maori | Maori | 1 | 0 | - | - |
Arabic | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | 0.6 | 0 | - | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | - | - |
Other | 7 | 6 | 0 | - | 0.4 | 8 | - | 26 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | - | - |
Income4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
<20000 | 32 | 18 | 37 | 31 | 21 | 28 | 24 | 56 | 25 | 14 | 36 | 24 | 41 | 52 | 59 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 27 |
<35000 | 29 | 28 | 34 | 33 | 22 | 42 | 25 | 35 | 10 | 19 | 17 | 27 | 32 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 47 | 47 |
<50000 | 20 | 24 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 21 | 24 | 7 | 17 | 21 | 14 | 25 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 47 | 52 | 49 | 64 | 19 | 18 |
50000+ | 19 | 30 | 14 | 18 | 34 | 9 | 27 | 2 | 48 | 46 | 33 | 24 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 44 | 45 | 41 | 29 | 7 | 8 |
1%=response rate of the survey;
2Time that sampling started.
3Indian samples were divided into city, town and rural responses; Russian samples were from three cities, both are described in the analysis of the results for the respective samples.
4Income for NZ, A, Is, S, P in $; Japanese
Yen, (Y500,000; 800,000; 1,000,000; Russian in rbl; T in bahts
(125,000; 250,000; 500,000); In in rupees.
Abbreviations used in all tables: NZ=New Zealand; A=Australia;J=Japan;
J91 from Japan 1991 survey (Macer, 1992);
P=Philippines; S=Singapore; HK=Hong Kong; T=Thailand; R=Russia.
Other surveys that are compared in data tables include: NZ90
(Couchman & Fink-Jensen 1990, N=2034); US86
(from the Office of Technology Assessment Survey 1986, N=1273);
US92 (from March of Dimes Survey 1992, N=1032).
Table 4: General science and technology attitudes
Q1. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
++ Agree Strongly + Agree = Neither
- Disagree -- Disagree Strongly
NZ | A | J | J91 | In | T | R | Is | NZ | A | J | In | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js | |
a. Science makes an important contribution to the quality of life. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 45 | 46 | 34 | 26 | 47 | 59 | 20 | 39 | 47 | 51 | 35 | 35 | 59 | 58 | 51 | 36 | 85 | 56 | 71 | 58 | 26 | 19 |
+ | 50 | 48 | 56 | 55 | 29 | 40 | 58 | 35 | 48 | 46 | 57 | 24 | 40 | 42 | 46 | 62 | 14 | 37 | 27 | 36 | 57 | 60 |
= | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0.5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 19 |
- | 0.3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 0.4 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
-- | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
b. Most problems can be solved by applying more and better technology. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 14 | 11 | 12 | - | 23 | 8 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 9 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
+ | 38 | 44 | 34 | - | 41 | 39 | 50 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 33 | 33 | 41 | 53 | 59 | 53 | 33 | 28 | 24 | 17 | 26 | 26 |
= | 21 | 22 | 33 | - | 10 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 38 | 11 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 30 | 26 | 30 | 30 | 19 | 50 | 47 |
- | 24 | 20 | 17 | - | 20 | 37 | 16 | 24 | 30 | 31 | 19 | 28 | 31 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 23 | 26 | 29 | 43 | 16 | 21 |
-- | 3 | 3 | 4 | - | 6 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 3 |
c. The natural environment has a valuable property that humans should not tamper with. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 42 | 38 | 65 | - | 59 | 23 | 37 | 31 | 36 | 32 | 61 | 66 | 16 | 80 | 59 | 29 | 28 | 32 | 23 | 30 | 59 | 61 |
+ | 38 | 35 | 31 | - | 30 | 33 | 49 | 31 | 43 | 37 | 33 | 26 | 35 | 17 | 32 | 51 | 34 | 52 | 37 | 41 | 33 | 29 |
= | 11 | 18 | 3 | - | 5 | 11 | 8 | 24 | 14 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 27 | 9 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 9 |
- | 8 | 7 | 1 | - | 5 | 32 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 1 |
-- | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 3 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
d. Genetically modified plants and animals will help agriculture become less dependent on chemical pesticides. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 16 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 19 | 18 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 13 | 21 | 17 | 11 | 25 | 7 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 3 |
+ | 48 | 47 | 31 | 39 | 37 | 51 | 34 | 35 | 52 | 61 | 42 | 34 | 52 | 49 | 55 | 50 | 59 | 46 | 55 | 46 | 37 | 23 |
= | 22 | 25 | 45 | 45 | 5 | 15 | 37 | 33 | 26 | 19 | 43 | 11 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 32 | 10 | 35 | 16 | 26 | 44 | 58 |
- | 12 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 27 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 12 |
-- | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
e. Students should be informed about the social issues associated with science and technology so that they can participate in contemporary debates. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 44 | 48 | 51 | 47 | 38 | 44 | 33 | 36 | 39 | 37 | 33 | 32 | 45 | 62 | 30 | 13 | 71 | 70 | 76 | 74 | 45 | 44 |
+ | 50 | 46 | 39 | 40 | 37 | 46 | 52 | 36 | 47 | 50 | 52 | 23 | 51 | 36 | 49 | 56 | 27 | 29 | 22 | 25 | 48 | 52 |
= | 5 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 |
- | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 0.4 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
-- | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0.4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
f. A woman can abort a 4 month old fetus. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 9 | 14 | 6 | - | 5 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 |
+ | 29 | 24 | 23 | - | 12 | 14 | 29 | 27 | 21 | 26 | 29 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 24 | 12 | 9 | 19 | 19 |
= | 17 | 23 | 33 | - | 12 | 17 | 26 | 29 | 19 | 26 | 38 | 11 | 19 | 1 | 23 | 25 | 23 | 27 | 24 | 25 | 46 | 45 |
- | 23 | 22 | 29 | - | 30 | 39 | 20 | 10 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 31 | 50 | 7 | 27 | 37 | 25 | 20 | 24 | 22 | 25 | 27 |
-- | 22 | 17 | 9 | - | 41 | 27 | 11 | 20 | 26 | 20 | 4 | 47 | 38 | 88 | 42 | 25 | 22 | 19 | 32 | 35 | 7 | 7 |
g. A woman can abort a 4 month old fetus that has congenital abnormalities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 27 | 32 | 6 | - | 29 | 35 | 43 | 31 | 10 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 25 | 1 | 14 | 18 | 24 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 10 | 4 |
+ | 42 | 40 | 45 | - | 38 | 44 | 44 | 25 | 33 | 49 | 45 | 40 | 46 | 7 | 38 | 53 | 41 | 31 | 25 | 28 | 39 | 41 |
= | 13 | 14 | 28 | - | 13 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 17 | 23 | 31 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 27 | 16 | 20 | 28 | 21 | 26 | 40 | 42 |
- | 8 | 7 | 10 | - | 12 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 24 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
-- | 10 | 7 | 2 | - | 8 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 57 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 22 | 3 | 4 |
h. A married couple can use a surrogate mother and in vitro fertilisation if they cannot get pregnant themselves. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 13 | 21 | 6 | - | 15 | 18 | 24 | 20 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 2 |
+ | 42 | 38 | 21 | - | 30 | 55 | 53 | 29 | 44 | 50 | 32 | 28 | 55 | 13 | 37 | 32 | 43 | 35 | 24 | 25 | 18 | 16 |
= | 17 | 12 | 35 | - | 16 | 18 | 15 | 23 | 27 | 24 | 37 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 35 | 24 | 26 | 22 | 20 | 40 | 44 |
- | 17 | 20 | 23 | - | 23 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 28 | 5 | 37 | 15 | 23 | 15 | 22 | 20 | 21 | 28 | 28 |
-- | 11 | 9 | 15 | - | 16 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 33 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 20 | 17 | 10 | 10 |
i. Animals have rights that people should not violate. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 29 | 24 | 48 | - | 30 | 32 | 50 | 28 | 10 | 18 | 35 | 26 | 48 | 36 | 36 | 16 | 19 | 14 | 15 | 25 | 27 | 25 |
+ | 43 | 45 | 39 | - | 38 | 50 | 44 | 28 | 42 | 44 | 42 | 26 | 42 | 51 | 42 | 50 | 50 | 47 | 38 | 38 | 45 | 50 |
= | 16 | 22 | 10 | - | 10 | 11 | 4 | 22 | 32 | 25 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 30 | 19 | 26 | 27 | 23 | 22 | 21 |
- | 10 | 7 | 2 | - | 16 | 6 | 1 | 20 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 4 |
-- | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.3 |
Table 5: Awareness of developments in science and technology. - Not heard of it + Heard of it ++ Could explain it to a friend
NZ | A | J | J91 | In | T | R | Is | NZ | A | J | In | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js | |
Pesticides | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
+ | 48 | 47 | 61 | 58 | 44 | 34 | 54 | 60 | 60 | 56 | 73 | 41 | 59 | 76 | 67 | 78 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 24 | 40 |
++ | 50 | 48 | 36 | 38 | 51 | 66 | 44 | 36 | 38 | 39 | 22 | 53 | 41 | 23 | 26 | 9 | 95 | 94 | 95 | 90 | 76 | 60 |
In vitro fertilisation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
+ | 45 | 37 | 53 | 45 | 46 | 67 | 48 | 50 | 33 | 43 | 46 | 39 | 81 | 47 | 69 | 53 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 45 |
++ | 52 | 61 | 43 | 50 | 37 | 33 | 51 | 44 | 67 | 52 | 50 | 45 | 17 | 50 | 31 | 40 | 98 | 86 | 97 | 92 | 90 | 55 |
Computers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | 3 | 0.2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
+ | 49 | 38 | 61 | - | 50 | 57 | 40 | 50 | 45 | 50 | 68 | 47 | 71 | 58 | 64 | 68 | 19 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 42 | 52 |
++ | 50 | 61 | 35 | - | 47 | 43 | 59 | 44 | 55 | 49 | 25 | 51 | 29 | 41 | 35 | 29 | 81 | 95 | 78 | 84 | 57 | 46 |
Biotechnology | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- | 23 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 13 | 25 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 0.4 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
+ | 62 | 56 | 65 | 65 | 53 | 57 | 62 | 62 | 54 | 54 | 69 | 53 | 71 | 68 | 45 | 74 | 12 | 51 | 11 | 38 | 11 | 50 |
++ | 15 | 25 | 29 | 32 | 37 | 41 | 30 | 20 | 33 | 21 | 26 | 40 | 23 | 19 | 55 | 18 | 88 | 43 | 89 | 54 | 88 | 49 |
Nuclear Power | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- | 1 | 2 | 4 | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 1 | 1 | 0.3 |
+ | 57 | 49 | 61 | - | 55 | 75 | 47 | 66 | 43 | 18 | 64 | 51 | 86 | 59 | 78 | 72 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 25 | 17 |
++ | 42 | 49 | 35 | - | 41 | 23 | 52 | 24 | 57 | 81 | 32 | 42 | 11 | 40 | 16 | 20 | 94 | 93 | 91 | 89 | 74 | 83 |
AIDS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- | 0.3 | 0 | 5 | - | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+ | 32 | 30 | 44 | - | 40 | 34 | 40 | 40 | 12 | 11 | 32 | 29 | 37 | 23 | 42 | 45 | 1 | 3 | 0.4 | 3 | 9 | 24 |
++ | 68 | 70 | 51 | - | 59 | 66 | 55 | 58 | 88 | 89 | 64 | 70 | 63 | 76 | 58 | 54 | 99 | 97 | 100 | 97 | 91 | 76 |
Human gene therapy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- | 26 | 23 | 23 | - | 27 | 10 | 22 | 20 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 19 | 15 | 8 | 25 | 29 | 2 | 26 | 4 | 20 | 3 | 21 |
+ | 57 | 50 | 58 | - | 47 | 70 | 57 | 48 | 28 | 48 | 56 | 55 | 71 | 66 | 59 | 55 | 22 | 44 | 16 | 40 | 35 | 61 |
++ | 17 | 27 | 19 | - | 26 | 20 | 21 | 32 | 65 | 36 | 38 | 26 | 14 | 26 | 16 | 16 | 76 | 30 | 80 | 40 | 62 | 18 |
Genetic engineering | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- | 9 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
+ | 62 | 49 | 74 | 68 | 46 | 58 | 60 | 82 | 26 | 43 | 67 | 40 | 63 | 60 | 51 | 79 | 7 | 41 | 9 | 43 | 25 | 67 |
++ | 29 | 42 | 17 | 26 | 37 | 29 | 26 | 10 | 74 | 54 | 25 | 50 | 20 | 36 | 48 | 14 | 93 | 55 | 91 | 56 | 74 | 18 |
Table 6a: Perceptions of benefit (Q6) or risk (Q7), and open comments about in vitro fertilisation
IVF | |||||||||||||||||||||
NZ | A | J | In | T | R | Is | NZs | As | Js | In | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js | |
Q6. Do you personally believe IVF is a worthwhile area for scientific research? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 63 | 65 | 47 | 57 | 79 | 70 | 84 | 71 | 70 | 63 | 62 | 84 | 45 | 70 | 64 | 85 | 77 | 80 | 79 | 80 | 66 |
No | 22 | 22 | 23 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 45 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 14 |
Don't know | 15 | 13 | 30 | 26 | 6 | 16 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 25 | 23 | 5 | 10 | 21 | 23 | 5 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 20 |
N | 325 | 196 | 334 | 531 | 682 | 456 | 50 | 95 | 108 | 423 | 313 | 232 | 156 | 249 | 104 | 204 | 95 | 250 | 114 | 556 | 378 |
Not stated | 28.0 | 25.0 | 45.8 | 45.6 | 24.2 | 63.9 | 70 | 28.4 | 24.1 | 39.7 | 43.8 | 13.8 | 35.9 | 57.0 | 53.9 | 19.1 | 31.6 | 22.4 | 31.6 | 41.7 | 55.8 |
Science | 4.0 | 9.2 | 4.5 | 2.3 | 4.8 | 6.1 | 4 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 1.3 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 0 | 1.0 | 9.3 | 8.4 | 11.2 | 9.7 | 15.1 | 9.0 |
Cure disease | 37.2 | 34.7 | 15.6 | 21.7 | 46.8 | 5.8 | 14 | 41.1 | 49.1 | 24.1 | 32.3 | 67.2 | 18.0 | 27.3 | 28.9 | 35.6 | 29.5 | 28.4 | 24.6 | 16.4 | 4.5 |
Humanity | 2.8 | 2.0 | 6.3 | 6.6 | 6.0 | 8.9 | 0 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 10.9 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 8.9 | 3.6 | 6.7 | 10.7 | 9.5 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 3.2 | 1.6 |
Inc.efficiency | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 2.9 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.6 |
Help if careful | 2.5 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 10 | 7.4 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 0 | 8.3 | 5.3 | 10.4 | 14.9 | 9.2 | 0 |
Agriculture | 1.5 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 4.7 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 3.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 2.4 | 0 | 3.1 | 12.4 |
Misuse | 3.7 | 1.0 | 4.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 1.9 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 1.6 |
Playing God | 11.1 | 6.6 | 10.2 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 0 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 18.6 | 3.6 | 5.8 | 2.0 | 4.2 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 6.1 |
Bad health | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 |
Social change | 0.9 | 0 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 |
Don't need | 5.8 | 13.8 | 3.6 | 5.3 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 2 | 9.5 | 13.8 | 4.0 | 6.1 | 1.7 | 5.8 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 6.9 | 3.2 | 8.8 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
Unknown | 0.9 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 1.6 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 3.8 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.7 |
Q7. Do you have any worries about the impact of research or applications of IVF? How much? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
No worries | 28 | 30 | 13 | 42 | 43 | 28 | 49 | 27 | 35 | 19 | 45 | 30 | 12 | 36 | 24 | 25 | 29 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 12 |
A few | 29 | 26 | 45 | 27 | 32 | 23 | 26 | 31 | 29 | 51 | 27 | 50 | 29 | 29 | 26 | 39 | 30 | 25 | 22 | 50 | 42 |
Some | 24 | 20 | 28 | 17 | 19 | 31 | 19 | 27 | 28 | 21 | 16 | 15 | 27 | 27 | 40 | 24 | 29 | 35 | 36 | 26 | 29 |
A lot | 19 | 24 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 31 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 24 | 25 | 12 | 17 |
N | 306 | 198 | 326 | 501 | 679 | 456 | 48 | 95 | 105 | 423 | 308 | 230 | 155 | 247 | 104 | 204 | 94 | 247 | 113 | 554 | 381 |
Not Stated | 36.0 | 34.3 | 50.9 | 53.5 | 39.3 | 74.5 | 70.8 | 34.7 | 42.9 | 50.6 | 55.5 | 25.2 | 52.9 | 67.1 | 56.7 | 30.4 | 53.2 | 29.6 | 35.4 | 48.7 | 54.9 |
Don't know | 0.7 | 1.0 | 2.2 | 4.6 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.8 |
Interfere Nature | 10.5 | 9.1 | 8.9 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 6.3 | 9.5 | 6.8 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 10.3 | 2.0 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 1.8 | 3.6 | 7.4 |
Fear/feeling | 4.2 | 1.0 | 5.5 | 2.0 | 4.3 | 6.9 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 0.4 | 0 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 0.8 |
Ethical | 8.5 | 10.1 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 5.9 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 16.8 | 8.6 | 17.4 | 7.5 | 3.5 | 9.0 | 3.6 | 14.4 | 20.1 | 11.7 | 19.0 | 20.4 | 17.2 | 10.2 |
Social effect bad | 3.9 | 3.0 | 6.4 | 10.2 | 6.5 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 8.6 | 3.3 | 5.2 | 15.7 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 6.7 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 7.2 | 5.0 |
Insuff. control | 4.6 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 5.6 | 9.2 |
Bad health | 2.3 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 1.9 | 0 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 3.3 | 7.5 | 10.4 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 0 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 5.0 | 3.1 |
Ecology | 1.0 | 2.5 | 0 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0 | 6.3 | 12.4 | 0 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0 | 2.2 | 1.6 |
Waste | 3.3 | 10.1 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 0 | 1.0 | 6.9 | 1.1 | 9.7 | 9.7 | 0.4 | 0 |
Human misuse | 13.4 | 9.1 | 10.7 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 12.5 | 12.6 | 1.9 | 10.6 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 3.9 | 14.7 | 9.6 | 14.6 | 14.2 | 4.3 | 4.5 |
Eugenics | 3.6 | 4.6 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 5.5 | 0.2 | 0 | 8.4 | 1.9 | 0 | 0.3 | 5.7 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0 | 4.9 | 3.2 | 6.5 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.3 |
Can control | 8.2 | 9.1 | 1.8 | 7.4 | 21.2 | 1.7 | 4.2 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 2.6 | 10.4 | 23.5 | 3.2 | 11.3 | 2.9 | 9.8 | 6.4 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 1.3 |
Table 6b: Perceptions of benefit (Q6) or risk (Q7), and open comments about computers
Computers | |||||||||||||||||||||
NZ | A | J | In | T | R | Is | NZs | As | Js | In | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js | |
Q6. Do you personally believe computers is a worthwhile area for scientific research? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 85 | 90 | 85 | 91 | 98 | 92 | 86 | 92 | 88 | 87 | 90 | 98 | 95 | 90 | 92 | 95 | 98 | 93 | 90 | 93 | 92 |
No | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Don't know | 9 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 |
N | 324 | 196 | 332 | 420 | 685 | 456 | 50 | 95 | 109 | 424 | 186 | 232 | 158 | 249 | 105 | 204 | 93 | 250 | 114 | 556 | 379 |
Not stated | 33.6 | 30.6 | 47.3 | 34.5 | 25.0 | 69.1 | 74 | 29.5 | 26.6 | 45.8 | 28.5 | 11.2 | 32.9 | 55.4 | 44.8 | 22.0 | 36.2 | 28.4 | 37.7 | 48.6 | 54.4 |
Economy | 3.7 | 4.1 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 5.6 | 2 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 3.8 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 0 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
Science | 11.4 | 13.8 | 6.9 | 7.9 | 12.3 | 5.8 | 4 | 19.0 | 12.8 | 7.8 | 13.4 | 16.0 | 9.5 | 5.2 | 6.7 | 23.9 | 18.1 | 20.8 | 9.7 | 13.1 | 9.0 |
Humanity | 12.4 | 11.2 | 31.0 | 17.2 | 7.5 | 10.2 | 0 | 17.9 | 7.3 | 35.1 | 20.4 | 5.6 | 20.9 | 10.0 | 10.5 | 19.6 | 22.3 | 14.4 | 14.9 | 4.9 | 2.2 |
Inc.efficiency | 25.9 | 30.6 | 5.1 | 35.5 | 49.3 | 6.1 | 12 | 25.3 | 44.0 | 5.9 | 30.7 | 60.8 | 29.1 | 22.1 | 37.1 | 23.9 | 14.9 | 19.6 | 16.7 | 17.1 | 6.7 |
Good Envir. | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
Helpifcareful | 3.4 | 3.1 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 8 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0 | 8.8 | 5.3 | 10.4 | 14.0 | 13.3 | 21.9 |
Insuff. control | 0.6 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 3.5 | 0.9 | 2.6 |
Playing God | 0.6 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 |
Unknown | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 |
Don't need | 1.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
Social change | 5.3 | 3.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 |
Q7. Do you have any worries about the impact of research or applications of computers? How much? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
No worries | 46 | 51 | 57 | 55 | 64 | 61 | 46 | 58 | 44 | 63 | 57 | 63 | 45 | 60 | 44 | 53 | 53 | 47 | 39 | 57 | 52 |
A few | 28 | 22 | 34 | 22 | 27 | 18 | 31 | 21 | 28 | 32 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 23 | 29 | 31 | 24 | 27 | 32 | 32 | 34 |
Some | 19 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 5 | 16 | 9 | 18 | 10 | 22 | 14 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 7 | 9 |
A lot | 7 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 |
N | 321 | 197 | 322 | 407 | 682 | 456 | 48 | 95 | 108 | 425 | 182 | 229 | 155 | 247 | 104 | 204 | 94 | 247 | 114 | 553 | 380 |
Not Stated | 43.5 | 46.2 | 63.0 | 51.4 | 45.3 | 80.8 | 81.3 | 45.3 | 41.7 | 65.9 | 47.3 | 28.0 | 57.4 | 70.0 | 64.4 | 45.6 | 56.4 | 45.3 | 49.1 | 68.9 | 68.4 |
Don't know | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 0 | 1.3 | 0 | 1.6 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.8 |
Interfere Nature | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.4 | 1.6 |
Fear/feeling | 1.6 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0 | 1.5 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 0.5 |
Ethical | 8.8 | 7.1 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0 | 4.2 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 12.3 | 6.4 | 10.9 | 12.3 | 2.4 | 4.0 |
Social effect bad | 19.9 | 20.3 | 6.5 | 1.9 | 7.6 | 0.7 | 8.3 | 25.3 | 37.0 | 4.5 | 24.7 | 16.6 | 18.1 | 8.5 | 21.2 | 14.7 | 13.8 | 15.8 | 19.3 | 11.0 | 9.7 |
Insuff. control | 1.3 | 1.0 | 4.7 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 9.1 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 5.1 | 6.7 |
Bad health | 1.0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 3.2 | 2.4 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
Dangerous | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 |
Ecology | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.8 |
Waste | 0.3 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 |
Human misuse | 8.8 | 6.6 | 8.1 | 3.2 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 8.3 | 6.3 | 0.9 | 6.1 | 1.7 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 2.9 | 10.8 | 7.5 | 11.3 | 8.8 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
Can control | 12.3 | 16.2 | 9.9 | 18.2 | 29.3 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 16.8 | 12.9 | 9.4 | 19.2 | 41.9 | 13.6 | 13.4 | 8.7 | 13.2 | 8.5 | 11.7 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 4.5 |
Table 6c: Perceptions of benefit (Q6) or risk (Q7), and open comments about biotechnology
Biotech | |||||||||||||||||||||
NZ | A | J | In | T | R | Is | NZs | As | Js | In | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js | |
Q6. Do you personally believe biotechnology is a worthwhile area for scientific research? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 46 | 59 | 74 | 75 | 90 | 73 | 72 | 56 | 47 | 78 | 77 | 85 | 71 | 90 | 65 | 94 | 62 | 93 | 73 | 95 | 87 |
No | 5 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0.4 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Don't know | 47 | 38 | 19 | 20 | 9 | 22 | 18 | 40 | 53 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 25 | 7 | 29 | 6 | 35 | 7 | 27 | 3 | 8 |
N | 315 | 196 | 332 | 526 | 680 | 456 | 50 | 94 | 105 | 423 | 309 | 232 | 157 | 218 | 105 | 203 | 94 | 249 | 110 | 556 | 381 |
Not stated | 52.7 | 49.5 | 53.0 | 46.8 | 37.4 | 74.5 | 80 | 60.6 | 58.1 | 51.8 | 41.1 | 31.0 | 50.3 | 63.9 | 66.7 | 27.3 | 58.5 | 32.1 | 45.5 | 46.6 | 57.7 |
Economy | 0.6 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 4.9 | 0 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 |
Science | 6.0 | 10.2 | 7.8 | 9.1 | 14.7 | 5.6 | 4 | 6.4 | 2.9 | 7.6 | 9.1 | 22.4 | 5.1 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 10.7 | 10.6 | 14.5 | 8.2 | 15.5 | 9.5 |
Cure disease | 1.6 | 6.1 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 3.2 | 5.7 | 1.9 | 4.0 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 7.2 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
Humanity | 10.2 | 9.5 | 14.8 | 19.0 | 11.6 | 6.9 | 6 | 2.1 | 7.6 | 15.8 | 19.7 | 9.5 | 17.8 | 13.3 | 12.4 | 26.3 | 12.8 | 16.5 | 12.7 | 4.3 | 0.5 |
Inc.efficiency | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 7.1 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0 | 1.5 | 0 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0 |
Good for environ | 2.2 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 3.2 | 12.2 | 1.7 | 0 | 1.1 | 5.7 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 15.5 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 5.4 | 0 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 1.1 |
Agriculture | 4.4 | 4.1 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 0.8 | 0 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 9.2 | 11.7 | 8.1 | 2.6 | 4.8 | 6.7 | 11.2 | 4.3 | 8.0 | 6.4 | 11.0 | 4.7 |
Help if careful | 4.4 | 5.6 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 5.0 | 0.2 | 8 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 0 | 9.3 | 5.3 | 14.1 | 14.6 | 13.9 | 16.0 |
Dangerous | 0.9 | 1.5 | 3.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.1 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
Playing God | 2.2 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.3 |
Don't need | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
Unknown | 11.8 | 9.7 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 2 | 7.5 | 12.4 | 3.8 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 5.8 | 0 | 3.8 | 0 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 3.6 | 0.4 | 2.1 |
Q7. Do you have any worries about the impact of research or applications of biotechnology ? How much? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
No worries | 33 | 33 | 37 | 59 | 61 | 39 | 35 | 36 | 54 | 31 | 56 | 52 | 35 | 44 | 32 | 42 | 31 | 23 | 29 | 22 | 22 |
A few | 32 | 25 | 44 | 19 | 30 | 25 | 30 | 34 | 26 | 51 | 22 | 37 | 27 | 29 | 40 | 37 | 38 | 37 | 25 | 49 | 46 |
Some | 25 | 25 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 30 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 27 | 31 | 28 | 21 | 22 |
A lot | 10 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 8 | 10 |
N | 280 | 187 | 381 | 500 | 674 | 456 | 48 | 91 | 95 | 420 | 307 | 230 | 154 | 243 | 104 | 204 | 93 | 236 | 102 | 554 | 383 |
Not Stated | 41.4 | 41.2 | 53.4 | 58.6 | 49.2 | 81.4 | 77.1 | 51.7 | 57.9 | 62.9 | 60.6 | 36.5 | 64.9 | 71.2 | 74.1 | 50.0 | 63.4 | 41.1 | 6.9 | 58.1 | 63.2 |
Don't know | 14.3 | 15.5 | 2.2 | 5.0 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 4.2 | 12.1 | 11.6 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 5.7 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 0 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
Interfere Nature | 5.0 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 4.3 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 5.4 | 1.7 | 6.9 | 1.8 | 4.4 |
Fear/feeling | 8.6 | 4.8 | 6.9 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 0 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 7.1 | 6.2 | 3.0 | 5.8 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 7.8 | 2.5 | 1.6 |
Ethical | 1.1 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0 | 2.2 | 3.2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 0 | 4.3 | 3.4 |
Social effect bad | 1.1 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
No control/waste | 1.8 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 0 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 4.3 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 4.4 | 0 | 7.2 | 1.0 | 9.0 | 8.6 |
Bad health | 1.1 | 0 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.0 |
Dangerous | 1.8 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0 | 2.2 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 0.8 |
Ecology | 2.1 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 0 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 5.0 | 3.3 | 5.2 | 0 | 2.9 | 1.9 | 3.4 | 1.1 | 5.9 | 2.0 | 13.7 | 8.4 |
Human misuse | 13.2 | 14.4 | 8.7 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 2.6 | 14.6 | 13.2 | 2.1 | 9.1 | 5.9 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 1.9 | 17.7 | 10.8 | 22.9 | 18.6 | 4.0 | 3.1 |
Eugenics | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0 |
Can control | 8.2 | 7.5 | 6.5 | 16.8 | 27.5 | 1.5 | 0 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 2.6 | 14.3 | 38.7 | 13.6 | 10.3 | 9.6 | 11.3 | 6.5 | 7.6 | 4.9 | 2.4 | 2.4 |
Table 6d: Perceptions of benefit (Q6) or risk (Q7), and open comments about nuclear power
Nuclear | |||||||||||||||||||||
NZ | A | J | In | T | R | Is | NZs | As | Js | In | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js | |
Q6. Do you personally believe nuclear power is a worthwhile area for scientific research? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 47 | 54 | 64 | 65 | 61 | 55 | 58 | 50 | 63 | 64 | 59 | 38 | 39 | 27 | 59 | 60 | 62 | 75 | 75 | 73 | 78 |
No | 43 | 30 | 20 | 19 | 27 | 27 | 30 | 38 | 29 | 21 | 24 | 47 | 55 | 53 | 27 | 23 | 33 | 17 | 16 | 18 | 16 |
Don't know | 10 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
N | 324 | 196 | 334 | 420 | 683 | 456 | 50 | 95 | 108 | 423 | 183 | 231 | 158 | 249 | 105 | 203 | 95 | 249 | 114 | 556 | 382 |
Not stated | 27.8 | 28.1 | 41.6 | 39.5 | 32.1 | 68.3 | 70.0 | 14.7 | 15.7 | 33.3 | 36.1 | 20.8 | 32.9 | 53.0 | 50.5 | 19.5 | 29.5 | 27.3 | 36.0 | 41.2 | 46.1 |
Science | 4.9 | 9.7 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 4.0 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 4.7 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 0 | 1.0 | 9.3 | 6.3 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 11.5 | 8.6 |
Energy/efficient | 9.9 | 11.7 | 11.7 | 31.1 | 20.8 | 5.2 | 0 | 16.8 | 28.7 | 14.4 | 23.0 | 15.6 | 13.9 | 5.2 | 25.7 | 14.6 | 3.2 | 19.1 | 9.7 | 12.4 | 8.9 |
Humanity | 2.5 | 3.6 | 9.6 | 8.3 | 4.3 | 5.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.6 | 4.4 | 1.7 | 4.4 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 10.2 | 6.3 | 5.6 | 7.9 | 2.0 | 0.5 |
Bad for Environ. | 4.9 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 8.7 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 4.9 | 7.4 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.6 |
Good for Environ | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 5.3 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 0 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.8 |
Help if careful | 8.6 | 10.2 | 2.7 | 6.2 | 11.0 | 0.2 | 12.0 | 13.7 | 13.0 | 3.1 | 7.7 | 10.0 | 6.3 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 18.5 | 14.7 | 19.7 | 21.9 | 11.3 | 11.0 |
No control/misuse | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 4.7 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 4.4 | 9.1 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 4.5 | 3.4 |
Dangerous | 29.9 | 26.5 | 18.9 | 10.7 | 14.1 | 7.1 | 6.0 | 35.8 | 25.0 | 24.6 | 9.8 | 23.8 | 29.1 | 25.3 | 12.4 | 12.7 | 22.1 | 10.0 | 11.4 | 10.1 | 13.6 |
Playing God | 0.9 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 |
Bad health | 1.2 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 |
Unknown | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 1.2 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.1 |
Don't need | 4.9 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0 | 4.2 | 1.9 | 7.3 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 6.8 | 6.3 | 5.6 | 1.8 | 5.2 | 3.7 |
Social change | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Q7. Do you have any worries about the impact of research or applications of nuclear power? How much? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
No worries | 12 | 16 | 15 | 23 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 |
A few | 16 | 16 | 28 | 19 | 22 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 27 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 16 | 12 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 25 |
Some | 19 | 20 | 25 | 23 | 32 | 23 | 31 | 16 | 31 | 33 | 20 | 34 | 23 | 24 | 37 | 21 | 27 | 32 | 28 | 29 | 21 |
A lot | 53 | 48 | 32 | 35 | 31 | 52 | 48 | 63 | 48 | 31 | 41 | 49 | 67 | 58 | 43 | 54 | 55 | 42 | 45 | 43 | 45 |
N | 314 | 197 | 326 | 408 | 681 | 456 | 48 | 94 | 108 | 425 | 183 | 230 | 155 | 247 | 103 | 204 | 94 | 245 | 114 | 555 | 383 |
Not Stated | 29.9 | 24.9 | 49.7 | 42.9 | 35.5 | 76.0 | 70 | 14.9 | 19.4 | 46.4 | 38.8 | 20.9 | 44.5 | 53.4 | 43.7 | 20.6 | 42.6 | 29.0 | 29.8 | 42.3 | 49.9 |
Don't know | 0.3 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.8 |
Interfere Nature | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
Fear/feeling | 2.6 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 5.4 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 3.9 | 1.5 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 4.4 | 2.3 | 0.8 |
Ethical-Social | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 5.2 | 2.8 | 1.8 |
Insuff. control | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 0.5 | 7.6 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 0 | 6.5 | 1.9 | 0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 14.2 | 9.9 |
Bad health | 3.2 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 5.8 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0 | 1.3 | 0.3 |
Dangerous | 26.8 | 38.1 | 27.3 | 30.3 | 18.9 | 7.1 | 6.3 | 48.9 | 51.9 | 35.1 | 22.4 | 35.2 | 32.9 | 21.5 | 30.1 | 29.9 | 13.8 | 26.1 | 22.8 | 23.2 | 23.0 |
Ecology | 6.7 | 5.1 | 2.2 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 5.3 | 6.5 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 7.0 | 3.2 | 4.9 | 1.9 | 15.2 | 11.7 | 10.2 | 7.9 | 6.5 | 6.0 |
Waste | 1.6 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 1.6 |
Human misuse | 19.4 | 14.2 | 7.1 | 19.1 | 16.9 | 1.5 | 16.7 | 23.4 | 14.8 | 6.8 | 22.4 | 19.1 | 8.4 | 13.8 | 9.7 | 21.1 | 11.7 | 22.9 | 22.8 | 3.2 | 4.2 |
Can control | 4.1 | 6.6 | 2.5 | 4.9 | 9.4 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 3.3 | 5.2 | 0 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0 | 1.1 | 0.8 |
Table 6e: Perceptions of benefit (Q6) or risk (Q7), and open comments about pesticides
Pesticides | |||||||||||||||||||||
NZ | A | J | In | T | R | Is | NZs | As | Js | In | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js | |
Q6. Do you personally believe pesticides is a worthwhile area for scientific research? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 62 | 69 | 84 | 74 | 63 | 46 | 68 | 61 | 68 | 75 | 67 | 46 | 58 | 68 | 47 | 82 | 77 | 86 | 84 | 88 | 86 |
No | 23 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 33 | 33 | 30 | 14 | 18 | 9 | 22 | 51 | 35 | 18 | 28 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
Don't know | 15 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 25 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 8 |
N | 324 | 197 | 334 | 528 | 686 | 456 | 50 | 95 | 109 | 422 | 313 | 232 | 158 | 249 | 105 | 201 | 95 | 251 | 113 | 551 | 382 |
Not stated | 35.8 | 33.0 | 41.6 | 38.8 | 29.0 | 71.5 | 72.0 | 31.6 | 26.6 | 42.9 | 34.8 | 14.7 | 37.3 | 55.4 | 54.3 | 20.0 | 32.6 | 26.7 | 35.4 | 42.7 | 52.9 |
Economy | 0.6 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Science | 4.0 | 9.1 | 5.1 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 0 | 1.9 | 8.8 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 8.9 | 11.1 | 8.4 |
Humanity | 3.4 | 3.6 | 9.3 | 5.1 | 3.1 | 5.4 | 0 | 1.1 | 4.6 | 7.8 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 5.7 | 4.8 | 2.9 | 9.3 | 8.4 | 4.8 | 8.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 |
Inc.efficiency | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 |
Bad for Environ. | 9.2 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 4.4 | 12.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 11.6 | 6.4 | 9.0 | 9.9 | 22.0 | 10.1 | 4.4 | 7.6 | 13.7 | 7.4 | 9.6 | 6.2 | 13.6 | 12.6 |
Help if careful | 12.0 | 10.2 | 3.6 | 5.1 | 18.5 | 0.9 | 14.0 | 11.6 | 17.4 | 4.5 | 5.1 | 11.6 | 7.6 | 5.6 | 4.8 | 19.5 | 11.6 | 22.3 | 21.2 | 11.4 | 11.0 |
Agriculture | 9.3 | 12.2 | 6.9 | 31.4 | 16.1 | 1.7 | 4.0 | 11.6 | 22.0 | 5.9 | 34.5 | 20.3 | 7.6 | 12.5 | 12.4 | 10.3 | 7.4 | 13.4 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 2.9 |
Misuse | 0.6 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 3.1 | 2.6 |
Dangerous | 12.0 | 16.2 | 10.5 | 6.4 | 8.5 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 14.7 | 7.3 | 10.0 | 2.9 | 11.6 | 16.5 | 8.8 | 2.9 | 7.8 | 11.6 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 3.5 | 3.7 |
Playing God | 4.0 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | 4.3 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 1.0 | 5.3 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
Bad health | 5.6 | 3.1 | 5.7 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 6.3 | 4.6 | 8.8 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 5.1 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.6 | |
Don't need | 2.1 | 0.5 | 3.9 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0 | 8.4 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 5.4 | 1.1 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
Unknown | 0.9 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 1.6 |
Q7. Do you have any worries about the impact of research or applications of pesticides? How much? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
No worries | 16 | 19 | 21 | 29 | 14 | 15 | 27 | 16 | 23 | 17 | 21 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 17 |
A few | 23 | 23 | 36 | 23 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 29 | 23 | 42 | 26 | 19 | 28 | 31 | 35 | 22 | 13 | 19 | 18 | 34 | 33 |
Some | 34 | 25 | 26 | 22 | 37 | 25 | 38 | 34 | 37 | 30 | 26 | 42 | 33 | 39 | 43 | 36 | 42 | 39 | 33 | 35 | 28 |
A lot | 27 | 33 | 17 | 26 | 30 | 49 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 11 | 27 | 34 | 33 | 15 | 11 | 30 | 35 | 30 | 36 | 20 | 22 |
N | 313 | 195 | 325 | 518 | 681 | 456 | 48 | 94 | 108 | 426 | 314 | 230 | 155 | 246 | 104 | 204 | 94 | 246 | 114 | 551 | 383 |
Not Stated | 34.5 | 28.7 | 54.8 | 45.2 | 35.5 | 77.8 | 72.9 | 30.9 | 34.3 | 55.4 | 41.1 | 20.9 | 50.3 | 61.0 | 52.9 | 24.5 | 45.7 | 29.7 | 34.2 | 48.5 | 58.2 |
Don't know | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.8 |
Interfere Nature | 5.8 | 3.1 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 5.3 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.0 |
Fear/feeling | 3.5 | 2.1 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 5.6 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 4.5 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 0.8 |
Ethical/Social | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 5.3 | 2.7 | 1.8 |
Insuff. control | 1.6 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 5.1 | 1.7 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 4.4 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 8.4 | 7.8 |
Bad health | 8.3 | 6.2 | 10.8 | 12.4 | 5.9 | 3.2 | 6.3 | 7.5 | 15.7 | 13.9 | 13.1 | 8.3 | 11.6 | 7.3 | 15.4 | 5.9 | 6.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 5.6 | 4.7 |
Dangerous | 11.5 | 22.6 | 8.9 | 12.4 | 14.1 | 1.5 | 0 | 12.8 | 20.4 | 8.5 | 12.4 | 25.7 | 16.1 | 8.5 | 5.8 | 14.2 | 3.2 | 8.5 | 9.7 | 6.4 | 6.0 |
Ecology | 12.1 | 13.3 | 6.8 | 13.9 | 15.7 | 3.0 | 6.3 | 29.8 | 17.6 | 6.6 | 20.7 | 24.8 | 11.0 | 9.8 | 14.4 | 27.0 | 14.9 | 24.0 | 20.2 | 19.2 | 14.1 |
Waste | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 |
Human misuse | 12.1 | 11.8 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 11.9 | 2.4 | 10.4 | 9.6 | 2.8 | 6.6 | 3.5 | 6.5 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 14.7 | 12.8 | 20.3 | 15.8 | 3.5 | 2.9 |
Can control | 6.4 | 6.7 | 4.0 | 6.4 | 7.6 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 7.5 | 4.6 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 5.7 | 1.3 | 4.1 | 1.9 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 2.2 | 1.8 |
Table 6f: Perceptions of benefit (Q6) or risk (Q7), and open comments about genetic engineering
Gen.eng. | |||||||||||||||||||||
NZ | A | J | In | T | R | Is | NZs | As | Js | In | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js | |
Q6. Do you personally believe genetic engineering is a worthwhile area for scientific research? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 41 | 62 | 57 | 65 | 77 | 65 | 74 | 76 | 60 | 69 | 76 | 71 | 55 | 80 | 60 | 92 | 60 | 94 | 69 | 90 | 74 |
No | 29 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 30 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 20 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 9 |
Don't know | 30 | 21 | 33 | 27 | 18 | 28 | 10 | 15 | 24 | 27 | 18 | 24 | 15 | 13 | 28 | 4 | 20 | 5 | 17 | 6 | 17 |
N | 321 | 197 | 334 | 523 | 682 | 456 | 50 | 95 | 108 | 423 | 314 | 231 | 158 | 249 | 105 | 204 | 95 | 250 | 113 | 554 | 378 |
Not stated | 39.6 | 37.6 | 53.9 | 50.7 | 40.8 | 75.8 | 72.0 | 27.4 | 30.6 | 51.8 | 36.9 | 33.3 | 40.5 | 59.4 | 60.0 | 21.0 | 35.8 | 26.8 | 31.0 | 47.5 | 55.8 |
Science | 5.3 | 9.6 | 6.0 | 4.6 | 19.4 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 1.9 | 9.5 | 3.8 | 23.8 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 8.3 | 6.3 | 10.0 | 8.9 | 16.3 | 9.0 |
Cure disease | 7.8 | 8.1 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 10.0 | 27.4 | 25.0 | 12.8 | 15.0 | 2.6 | 11.7 | 9.2 | 15.3 | 18.5 | 6.3 | 18.8 | 11.5 | 8.5 | 4.5 |
Humanity | 5.6 | 7.1 | 9.9 | 14.1 | 6.5 | 6.7 | 0 | 10.5 | 10.2 | 9.9 | 21.0 | 4.4 | 9.5 | 14.8 | 9.5 | 15.2 | 9.5 | 13.2 | 8.0 | 3.6 | 1.6 |
Good for Environ | 0.6 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
Help if careful | 7.2 | 11.2 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 5.0 | 1.7 | 10.0 | 9.5 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 7.6 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 15.6 | 18.6 | 13.2 | 12.4 |
Agr/economy | 5.3 | 8.6 | 2.7 | 12.1 | 16.6 | 2.6 | 0 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 1.9 | 15.6 | 21.2 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 14.6 | 7.4 | 11.6 | 6.2 | 3.8 | 1.6 |
Misuse | 5.9 | 3.5 | 5.4 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0 | 6.3 | 5.6 | 2.6 | 0 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 7.4 | 2.0 | 7.1 | 3.3 | 6.1 |
Dangerous | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 4.0 | 2.2 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 6.4 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 2.7 |
Playing God | 14.0 | 8.6 | 4.5 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0 | 5.3 | 10.2 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 12.7 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 7.4 | 0.4 | 5.3 | 0.7 | 2.1 |
Don't need | 2.2 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 1.1 |
Unknown | 2.5 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 5.4 | 2.9 | 6.5 | 3.8 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 2.7 |
Q7. Do you have any worries about the impact of research or applications of genetic engineering? How much? Why?... | |||||||||||||||||||||
No worries | 14 | 19 | 22 | 48 | 42 | 26 | 17 | 11 | 16 | 20 | 51 | 37 | 10 | 25 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 15 |
A few | 23 | 21 | 39 | 23 | 32 | 23 | 17 | 27 | 19 | 44 | 23 | 38 | 25 | 23 | 29 | 34 | 11 | 23 | 12 | 44 | 34 |
Some | 24 | 26 | 24 | 19 | 19 | 28 | 30 | 33 | 33 | 24 | 17 | 19 | 30 | 36 | 42 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 29 | 28 | 29 |
A lot | 39 | 34 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 23 | 36 | 29 | 32 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 35 | 14 | 18 | 15 | 42 | 27 | 49 | 14 | 22 |
N | 309 | 195 | 316 | 500 | 670 | 456 | 47 | 95 | 107 | 422 | 310 | 230 | 155 | 245 | 104 | 204 | 94 | 250 | 112 | 555 | 379 |
Not Stated | 31.1 | 33.3 | 58.9 | 55.4 | 45.4 | 79.5 | 74.5 | 24.2 | 26.2 | 57.4 | 54.8 | 34.4 | 51.0 | 65.7 | 61.5 | 23.0 | 42.6 | 29.6 | 29.5 | 53.3 | 59.1 |
Don't know | 2.9 | 3.6 | 1.9 | 6.0 | 5.7 | 1.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 10.4 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
Interfere Nature | 13.3 | 9.2 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 10.5 | 11.2 | 4.7 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 7.7 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 5.3 | 4.0 | 6.3 | 1.3 | 6.1 |
Fear/feeling | 5.2 | 4.6 | 6.7 | 6.0 | 8.7 | 5.8 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 6.6 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 7.1 | 3.4 | 2.1 |
Ethical | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0 | 9.5 | 13.1 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 7.5 | 5.6 | 12.5 | 6.3 | 5.0 |
Social effect bad | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 3.7 |
Insuff. control | 2.6 | 4.1 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0 | 5.3 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 6.5 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 4.8 | 10.3 | 5.3 | 11.2 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 9.0 |
Bad health | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 0 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 3.9 | 1.0 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.6 |
Dangerous | 3.6 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 0 | 3.2 | 5.6 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.1 |
Ecology | 2.3 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 1.9 | 6.9 | 1.1 | 6.8 | 1.8 | 13.2 | 4.2 |
Waste | 1.6 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Human misuse | 19.4 | 20.5 | 11.7 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 4.1 | 10.6 | 20.0 | 15.0 | 12.3 | 6.8 | 5.7 | 7.7 | 6.5 | 4.8 | 27.5 | 16.0 | 23.6 | 17.9 | 5.6 | 4.2 |
Eugenics | 6.5 | 7.2 | 0.6 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 0 | 8.5 | 19.0 | 19.6 | 0 | 12.9 | 4.8 | 8.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 8.3 | 11.7 | 1.6 | 10.7 | 1.6 | 0.8 |
Can control | 4.9 | 7.2 | 4.1 | 11.2 | 18.4 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 20.9 | 3.3 | 5.3 | 1.0 | 7.8 | 3.2 | 11.6 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.3 |
Table 7: Concerns about consuming foods made from GMOs
NZ | A | J | J91 | In | T | R | Is | NZ | A | J | In | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js | |
Q13. Before today, were you aware that genetically modified organisms, such as bacteria, plants and animals, are being used to produce food and medicines? 1Yes 2 No | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Y | 80 | 78 | 61 | 75 | 82 | 56 | 77 | 65 | 97 | 84 | 77 | 88 | 89 | 88 | 93 | 79 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Q14. If any of the following were to be produced from genetically modified organisms, would you have any concerns about using them? How much? Why?
1 No 2 F=A few 3 S=Some 4 L=A lot Dairy products | ||||||||||||||||||||||
No | 27 | 31 | 16 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 37 | 41 | 44 | 48 | 32 | 53 | 48 | 28 | 34 | 21 | 57 | 24 | 49 | 26 | 36 | 17 |
F | 22 | 21 | 40 | 52 | 26 | 28 | 63 | 22 | 36 | 26 | 46 | 33 | 35 | 24 | 23 | 43 | 22 | 24 | 21 | 30 | 38 | 36 |
S | 20 | 23 | 26 | - | 14 | 18 | - | 25 | 13 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 11 | 25 | 31 | 22 | 13 | 32 | 16 | 21 | 16 | 28 |
L | 31 | 25 | 18 | - | 12 | 6 | - | 12 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 23 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 20 | 14 | 23 | 10 | 19 |
Vegetables | ||||||||||||||||||||||
No | 33 | 34 | 24 | 59 | 47 | 54 | 45 | 47 | 60 | 47 | 37 | 55 | 51 | 30 | 36 | 31 | 60 | 25 | 51 | 29 | 39 | 21 |
F | 19 | 22 | 42 | 41 | 27 | 28 | 55 | 20 | 23 | 29 | 42 | 29 | 29 | 21 | 26 | 37 | 25 | 22 | 22 | 27 | 38 | 40 |
S | 19 | 19 | 19 | - | 14 | 13 | - | 23 | 12 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 22 | 28 | 21 | 7 | 33 | 15 | 22 | 14 | 24 |
L | 29 | 25 | 15 | - | 12 | 5 | - | 10 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 27 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 20 | 12 | 22 | 9 | 15 |
Meat | ||||||||||||||||||||||
No | 25 | 29 | 14 | 45 | 47 | 43 | 31 | 37 | 38 | 41 | 28 | 48 | 35 | 26 | 26 | 20 | 53 | 22 | 46 | 25 | 33 | 15 |
F | 18 | 18 | 39 | 55 | 25 | 29 | 69 | 18 | 30 | 22 | 43 | 32 | 35 | 20 | 21 | 36 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 37 | 34 |
S | 22 | 23 | 28 | - | 13 | 19 | - | 18 | 19 | 25 | 19 | 12 | 22 | 25 | 30 | 27 | 14 | 34 | 16 | 23 | 19 | 31 |
L | 35 | 30 | 19 | - | 15 | 9 | - | 27 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 23 | 17 | 11 | 22 | 15 | 28 | 11 | 20 |
Medicines | ||||||||||||||||||||||
No | 38 | 46 | 22 | 50 | 47 | 52 | 54 | 45 | 73 | 59 | 44 | 57 | 40 | 36 | 40 | 26 | 61 | 26 | 57 | 33 | 32 | 16 |
F | 23 | 21 | 39 | 51 | 28 | 25 | 46 | 10 | 18 | 19 | 36 | 29 | 28 | 15 | 20 | 28 | 23 | 30 | 22 | 35 | 39 | 31 |
S | 18 | 20 | 20 | - | 13 | 15 | - | 20 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 25 | 24 | 10 | 31 | 13 | 21 | 17 | 29 |
L | 21 | 13 | 19 | - | 12 | 8 | - | 25 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 28 | 15 | 22 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 24 |
Table 8: Reasons given for feelings about foodstuffs made from GMOs (Q14)
Q - D=Dairy, V=Vegetables, M=Meat, P=Medicines
Q14 reasons | Public | High school teachers | ||||||||||||||||||||
% | Q? | NZ | A | J | In | T | R | Isr | NZ | A | J | In | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js |
N | 306 | 195 | 329 | 514 | 681 | 440 | 50 | 94 | 108 | 426 | 296 | 231 | 160 | 246 | 103 | 196 | 96 | 250 | 106 | 531 | 354 | |
Not Stated | D | 36 | 36 | 48 | 53 | 43 | 68 | 74 | 38 | 39 | 53 | 59 | 26 | 63 | 58 | 59 | 41 | 29 | 37 | 38 | 48 | 49 |
V | 38 | 37 | 49 | 53 | 44 | 78 | 74 | 41 | 42 | 54 | 57 | 28 | 61 | 60 | 57 | 44 | 30 | 36 | 38 | 50 | 50 | |
M | 35 | 34 | 48 | 53 | 45 | 76 | 74 | 37 | 39 | 53 | 63 | 27 | 63 | 57 | 57 | 39 | 29 | 35 | 36 | 49 | 48 | |
P | 37 | 37 | 47 | 54 | 43 | 79 | 76 | 39 | 40 | 52 | 61 | 28 | 61 | 59 | 52 | 42 | 31 | 35 | 40 | 47 | 48 | |
Unknown | D | 6 | 7.7 | 10 | 6.0 | 5.4 | 7.8 | 0 | 3.2 | 5.6 | 12.2 | 3.4 | 5.2 | 8.5 | 3.7 | 7.7 | 3.6 | 15.6 | 12.3 | 4.4 | 8.9 | 11.9 |
health effect | V | 5 | 6.7 | 8 | 5.8 | 5.0 | 6.8 | 0 | 2.1 | 6.5 | 11.3 | 2.4 | 4.3 | 9.2 | 5.7 | 9.7 | 3.6 | 14.6 | 13.2 | 4.8 | 9.2 | 11.9 |
M | 6 | 7.7 | 10 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 6.8 | 0 | 4.3 | 6.5 | 12.0 | 2.0 | 6.1 | 7.2 | 4.9 | 7.8 | 4.1 | 14.6 | 14.2 | 4.8 | 9.0 | 12.4 | |
P | 7 | 6.7 | 9 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 6.3 | 0 | 1.1 | 6.5 | 7.3 | 2.0 | 5.2 | 6.5 | 3.7 | 9.7 | 4.6 | 13.5 | 10.4 | 2.8 | 9.4 | 11.9 | |
Long term risk | D | 3 | 1.5 | 5 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 0 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0 | 5.1 | 11.5 | 13.2 | 6.8 | 4.0 | 3.7 |
V | 3 | 1.5 | 5 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 0 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 5.1 | 11.5 | 13.2 | 6.4 | 4.0 | 3.4 | |
M | 3 | 1.5 | 5 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 5.1 | 9.4 | 13.2 | 6.8 | 4.0 | 3.4 | |
P | 3 | 1.5 | 4 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 0 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 3.1 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0 | 4.1 | 6.3 | 11.3 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 2.5 | |
Quality | D | 6 | 2.1 | 9 | 4.1 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 0 | 4.3 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 7.8 | 4.6 | 3.3 | 1.9 | 7.7 | 2.1 | 4.7 | 6.8 | 7.3 | 2.0 |
V | 6 | 3.1 | 6 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 1.7 | 0 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 5.8 | 7.4 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 6.6 | 2.1 | 3.8 | 6.8 | 6.4 | 2.0 | |
M | 7 | 3.1 | 8 | 3.9 | 5.2 | 2.2 | 0 | 4.3 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 9.7 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 6.8 | 7.1 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 7.6 | 7.0 | 2.0 | |
P | 7 | 1.5 | 5 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 0 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 6.1 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 6.1 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 5.6 | 7.3 | 1.7 | |
Safety | D | 11 | 11 | 11 | 3.5 | 20.1 | 2.2 | 6 | 12.8 | 11.1 | 9.9 | 2.1 | 21.7 | 3.3 | 10.2 | 4.8 | 11.7 | 12.5 | 9.4 | 14.0 | 12.8 | 10.0 |
V | 11 | 11 | 11 | 3.7 | 19.7 | 2.0 | 6 | 13.8 | 11.1 | 10.6 | 2.0 | 21.2 | 3.9 | 10.1 | 3.9 | 11.7 | 12.5 | 9.4 | 13.6 | 12.8 | 9.6 | |
M | 11 | 11 | 11 | 3.7 | 17.1 | 2.0 | 6 | 12.8 | 11.1 | 9.9 | 2.4 | 16.2 | 3.3 | 10.9 | 2.9 | 11.2 | 11.5 | 9.4 | 14.0 | 13.0 | 9.6 | |
P | 12 | 10 | 10 | 4.7 | 19.5 | 1.7 | 6 | 13.8 | 11.1 | 9.4 | 3.0 | 20.1 | 5.9 | 10.2 | 3.9 | 12.2 | 10.4 | 11.3 | 16.8 | 13.4 | 10.5 | |
Side effects | D | 1.3 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 2.0 | 2 | 4.3 | 7.4 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 9.1 | 5.2 | 6.5 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 6.3 | 3.8 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
V | 1.3 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 4.1 | 1.0 | 2 | 5.3 | 7.4 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 9.1 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 6.3 | 3.8 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.9 | |
M | 1.3 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 4.6 | 1.2 | 2 | 5.3 | 7.4 | 1.4 | 2 | 11.4 | 5.2 | 6.1 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 6.3 | 3.8 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
P | 1.6 | 5.6 | 5 | 2.9 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 4 | 3.2 | 10.2 | 2.6 | 0 | 13.5 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 3.9 | 4.6 | 8.3 | 5.7 | 1.6 | 3.4 | 3.4 | |
Unknown | D | 1.6 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | 4.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 4.0 | 2.3 |
research | V | 1.3 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0 | 2.0 | 5.2 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 4.1 | 2.3 |
M | 1.3 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 0 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0 | 2.0 | 5.2 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 4.3 | 2.6 | |
P | 1.6 | 0 | 1.8 | 0 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 5.2 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 4.3 | 2.5 | |
Unnatural | D | 18 | 16 | 6 | 7.8 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 6 | 7.4 | 8.3 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 6.7 | 5.6 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 7.6 |
V | 19 | 15 | 7 | 8.3 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 6 | 6.4 | 9.3 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 8.2 | |
M | 20 | 14 | 7 | 7.5 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 6 | 7.4 | 10.2 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 0.9 | 3.9 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 9.4 | 6.6 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 7.9 | |
P | 13 | 9 | 5 | 4.5 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 4 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 5.1 | 7.3 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 6.8 | |
Unethical | D | 5.8 | 4.6 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 6 | 8.5 | 12.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 4.1 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 2.0 |
V | 3.6 | 3.6 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 6 | 3.2 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.7 | |
M | 7.5 | 8.7 | 1.8 | 4.9 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 6 | 10.6 | 14.8 | 0.5 | 5.4 | 1.8 | 0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 6.1 | 2.1 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 2.3 | |
P | 4.2 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0 | 6.4 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.4 | |
Environment | D | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 5.6 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 0 | 6.6 | 5.2 | 9.6 | 6.6 | 4.0 | 3.1 |
V | 1 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 5.6 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 0 | 7.7 | 5.2 | 11.2 | 7.5 | 4.5 | 3.1 | |
M | 1 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 5.6 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 0 | 6.6 | 6.3 | 10.0 | 6.6 | 4.3 | 3.4 | |
P | 1 | 0 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 0 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 7.6 | 5.7 | 4.0 | 2.8 | |
Economic | D | 1.3 | 3.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 2 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.1 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 2.8 |
abuse | V | 1.3 | 3.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 2 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.6 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 2.6 |
M | 1.3 | 3.6 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 2 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.6 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 3.1 | |
P | 1.3 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 12.6 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 2.8 | |
Other | D | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3.9 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 2 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 6.6 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 5.8 | 6.6 | 3.1 | 5.2 | 2.8 | 6.0 | 4.0 |
V | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5.2 | 3.4 | 0 | 2 | 4.3 | 1.9 | 5.9 | 3.4 | 5.2 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 3.1 | 4.8 | 2.8 | 4.9 | 2.8 | |
M | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3.9 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 2 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 5.6 | 3.7 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 2.0 | 3.9 | 6.1 | 3.1 | 5.2 | 2.8 | 4.9 | 3.1 | |
P | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3.7 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 2 | 4.3 | 1.9 | 5.6 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 3.9 | 7.1 | 6.3 | 6.0 | 5.6 | 4.1 | 3.7 | |
Not needed | D | 1.3 | 3.6 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2 | 7.4 | 3.7 | 0 | 1.0 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 4.2 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 1.4 |
V | 1.3 | 3.6 | 0 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 2 | 6.4 | 3.7 | 0 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 4.2 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 1.4 | |
M | 1.3 | 5.1 | 0 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 2 | 7.4 | 3.7 | 0 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 5.2 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 1.7 | |
P | 1.3 | 2.1 | 0 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 0 | 0.6 | |
Lack | D | 7 | 5.1 | 8 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 2 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 6.3 | 5.6 | 9.4 | 4.1 | 8.8 |
Information | V | 6 | 5.1 | 8 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 2 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 6.3 | 5.6 | 9.4 | 4.1 | 8.2 |
M | 7 | 5.1 | 8 | 1.4 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 2 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 4.5 | 1.4 | 5.3 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 6.3 | 5.6 | 9.4 | 4.3 | 8.2 | |
P | 7 | 5.1 | 7 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 2 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 6.3 | 5.2 | 9.4 | 4.5 | 8.5 | |
Needed | D | 2.9 | 6.2 | 2.4 | 11.5 | 4.1 | 1.5 | 4 | 8.5 | 5.6 | 2.8 | 13.9 | 11.3 | 4.6 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 0.6 |
V | 4.2 | 8.2 | 2.7 | 11.8 | 4.6 | 1.2 | 4 | 9.6 | 5.6 | 3.1 | 16.3 | 10.0 | 7.1 | 3.6 | 5.8 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 0.9 | |
M | 2.3 | 6.7 | 2.4 | 10.0 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 4 | 7.4 | 5.6 | 2.8 | 9.2 | 10.1 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 0.9 | |
P | 9.5 | 17.0 | 5.0 | 15.0 | 7.2 | 1.7 | 10 | 21.3 | 16.7 | 5.6 | 18.2 | 8.7 | 11.7 | 9.8 | 15.5 | 7.1 | 2.1 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 2.0 | |
Increase food | D | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.8 | 0 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 2.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
V | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0 | 3.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.4 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
M | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 2.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Better | P | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 2.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 |
Already done | D | 3 | 4.1 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 4.5 | 0 | 5.1 | 3.1 | 6.4 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
V | 4 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0 | 4.3 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 4.6 | 3.1 | 6.8 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 1.4 | |
M | 1.3 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 4.6 | 2.1 | 6.4 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 2.0 | |
P | 3 | 4.1 | 5 | 1.8 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0 | 7.4 | 1.9 | 5.2 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 6.8 | 5.7 | 2.1 | 1.1 |
Q28. How do you feel about scientists changing the genetic makeup of human cells to:
++ Strongly Approve + Somewhat Approve - Somewhat Disapprove - - Strongly Disapprove DK Don't know *UK sample from 1994, see text.
Medical or biology students | High school teachers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
NZ | A | J | In | T | R | Is | U86 | US92 | NZ | A | J | In | T | P | S | HK | UK* | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js | |
a. Cure a usually fatal disease, such as cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 58 | 60 | 42 | 54 | 78 | 72 | 58 | 48 | 57 | 67 | 63 | 41 | 62 | 86 | 67 | 70 | 54 | 61 | 63 | 60 | 65 | 65 | 37 | 29 |
+ | 30 | 29 | 41 | 31 | 18 | 11 | 30 | 35 | 30 | 26 | 33 | 47 | 27 | 13 | 26 | 28 | 44 | 35 | 27 | 35 | 27 | 22 | 45 | 45 |
- | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0.4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 |
-- | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0.2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
DK | 4 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 15 |
b. Reduce the risk of developing a fatal disease later in life | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 42 | 47 | 35 | 48 | 50 | 46 | 50 | 39 | 41 | 45 | 46 | 31 | 53 | 46 | 49 | 56 | 47 | 46 | 53 | 42 | 49 | 49 | 27 | 19 |
+ | 36 | 34 | 40 | 35 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 41 | 50 | 32 | 40 | 39 | 38 | 39 | 45 | 31 | 44 | 38 | 27 | 45 | 46 |
- | 9 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 12 | 11 |
-- | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0.2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
DK | 7 | 8 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 20 |
c. Prevent children from inheriting a usually fatal disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 59 | 63 | 37 | 63 | 75 | 68 | 52 | 51 | 52 | 62 | 58 | 33 | 68 | 86 | 57 | 61 | 57 | 54 | 62 | 53 | 58 | 56 | 24 | 22 |
+ | 26 | 24 | 43 | 24 | 21 | 17 | 30 | 33 | 32 | 25 | 31 | 48 | 20 | 12 | 34 | 34 | 30 | 41 | 23 | 42 | 29 | 23 | 44 | 44 |
- | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 10 |
-- | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0.5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
DK | 5 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 0.4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 20 |
d. Prevent children from inheriting a non-fatal disease, such as diabetesdiabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 43 | 50 | 25 | 42 | 63 | 45 | 40 | 41 | 28 | 32 | 29 | 18 | 38 | 59 | 39 | 43 | 37 | 27 | 56 | 42 | 49 | 47 | 16 | 14 |
+ | 34 | 29 | 37 | 31 | 28 | 26 | 30 | 36 | 38 | 44 | 43 | 43 | 35 | 34 | 43 | 44 | 48 | 40 | 29 | 45 | 34 | 30 | 35 | 31 |
- | 11 | 8 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 23 |
-- | 7 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
DK | 5 | 8 | 21 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 22 | 9 | 0.4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 26 |
e. Improve the physical characteristics that children would inherit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 10 | 15 | 12 | 36 | 54 | 16 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 36 | 52 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3 |
+ | 14 | 13 | 16 | 27 | 29 | 20 | 12 | 28 | 27 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 31 | 35 | 27 | 30 | 26 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 11 |
- | 17 | 19 | 35 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 34 | 22 | 21 | 14 | 31 | 47 | 13 | 7 | 29 | 34 | 31 | 28 | 19 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 43 | 39 |
-- | 47 | 44 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 38 | 42 | 31 | 33 | 67 | 50 | 25 | 14 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 14 | 61 | 59 | 60 | 66 | 58 | 34 | 29 |
DK | 12 | 9 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 18 |
f. Improve the intelligence level that children would inherit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 11 | 15 | 13 | 41 | 48 | 18 | 6 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 58 | 18 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
+ | 13 | 12 | 13 | 29 | 26 | 17 | 16 | 26 | 25 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 28 | 22 | 31 | 26 | 23 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 8 |
- | 21 | 21 | 35 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 32 | 22 | 20 | 14 | 26 | 45 | 12 | 12 | 26 | 31 | 33 | 23 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 40 | 40 |
-- | 46 | 41 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 38 | 38 | 31 | 35 | 69 | 53 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 21 | 23 | 20 | 65 | 58 | 60 | 65 | 54 | 39 | 30 |
DK | 9 | 11 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 18 |
g. Make people more ethical | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 14 | 18 | 14 | 31 | 68 | 19 | 10 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 65 | 37 | 17 | 8 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
+ | 13 | 16 | 10 | 25 | 18 | 12 | 22 | - | - | 11 | 13 | 5 | 28 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 63 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
- | 12 | 10 | 32 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 24 | - | - | 10 | 23 | 38 | 12 | 9 | 19 | 27 | 34 | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
-- | 43 | 34 | 21 | 16 | 6 | 44 | 32 | - | - | 62 | 41 | 36 | 16 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 44 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
DK | 18 | 22 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 18 | 12 | - | - | 14 | 20 | 18 | 20 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
h. As an AIDS vaccine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
++ | 49 | 52 | 33 | 49 | 75 | 74 | 48 | - | - | 53 | 53 | 27 | 54 | 75 | 62 | 63 | 43 | 56 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
+ | 24 | 28 | 36 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 28 | - | - | 18 | 26 | 40 | 17 | 20 | 25 | 20 | 31 | 31 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
- | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | - | - | 6 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
-- | 7 | 4 | 0.3 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
DK | 14 | 8 | 27 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 4 | - | - | 17 | 8 | 24 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Q31. If there was no direct risk to humans and only very remote risks to the environment, would you approve or disapprove of the environmental use of genetically engineered organisms designed to produce...? Yes- Approve No- Disapprove DK Don't know
% | NZ | A | J | J91 | In | T | R | Is | US86 | NZ | A | J | I | T | P | S | HK | NZb | NZs | Ab | As | Jb | Js |
Tomatoes with better taste | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 49 | 54 | 69 | - | 73 | 83 | 35 | 40 | - | 54 | 53 | 71 | 77 | 88 | 68 | 74 | 58 | 67 | 51 | 60 | 47 | 67 | 55 |
No | 35 | 35 | 20 | - | 20 | 10 | 45 | 44 | - | 21 | 36 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 27 | 17 | 32 | 22 | 35 | 25 | 40 | 21 | 29 |
DK | 16 | 11 | 11 | - | 7 | 7 | 20 | 16 | - | 15 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 16 |
Healthier meat (e.g. less fat) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 54 | 60 | 57 | - | 66 | 84 | 35 | 44 | - | 74 | 71 | 65 | 68 | 88 | 75 | 72 | 62 | 72 | 63 | 71 | 57 | 60 | 47 |
No | 30 | 31 | 26 | - | 22 | 9 | 43 | 42 | - | 20 | 23 | 18 | 18 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 27 | 18 | 31 | 18 | 32 | 24 | 33 |
DK | 16 | 9 | 17 | - | 12 | 7 | 21 | 14 | - | 6 | 6 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 20 |
Larger sport fish | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 22 | 19 | 22 | 19 | 48 | 58 | 13 | 20 | 53 | 28 | 23 | 24 | 50 | 64 | 54 | 44 | 42 | 26 | 16 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 16 |
No | 61 | 65 | 54 | 50 | 27 | 25 | 61 | 58 | 43 | 63 | 65 | 52 | 31 | 20 | 40 | 39 | 37 | 59 | 68 | 64 | 67 | 64 | 67 |
DK | 17 | 16 | 24 | 31 | 25 | 17 | 26 | 22 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 24 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 17 | 21 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 17 | 17 |
Bacteria to clean up oil spills | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 75 | 82 | 71 | 75 | 74 | 87 | 63 | 70 | 73 | 92 | 89 | 76 | 74 | 85 | 78 | 86 | 70 | 85 | 82 | 91 | 84 | 77 | 63 |
No | 11 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 20 | 12 | 23 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 19 | 6 | 23 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 15 |
DK | 14 | 8 | 16 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 17 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 22 |
Disease resistant crops | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 70 | 78 | 66 | 75 | 78 | 91 | 54 | 50 | 73 | 81 | 81 | 67 | 81 | 91 | 82 | 83 | 72 | 85 | 70 | 83 | 70 | 71 | 55 |
No | 16 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 25 | 28 | 23 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 20 | 7 | 18 | 15 | 22 |
DK | 14 | 9 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 23 |
Cows which produce more milk | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes | 36 | 39 | 44 | - | 75 | 84 | 23 | 38 | - | 55 | 44 | 49 | 72 | 86 | 70 | 57 | 54 | 59 | 49 | 57 | 43 | 56 | 38 |
No | 45 | 42 | 32 | - | 19 | 7 | 38 | 40 | - | 31 | 35 | 29 | 19 | 5 | 26 | 25 | 34 | 28 | 37 | 25 | 39 | 26 | 35 |
DK | 19 | 19 | 24 | - | 6 | 9 | 39 | 20 | - | 14 | 21 | 22 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 27 |
206-215: Statistical Results Data Tables 11-27
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