In China do age, education, income, and urbanisation relate to attitudes to environmental protection? To find out, Peter Chai analyses survey data gathered from people on the mainland, between 2005 and 2022. Surprisingly, he finds no clear relationships between socio-demographic variables and concern about the environment
PhD Researcher, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University
Peter's research areas are political sociology, comparative politics, and public opinion.
His research methodology is survey analysis, and his regional focus is East Asia, especially the Greater China area.
His research uses transnational survey databases such as the World Values Survey and Asian Barometer to investigate how citizen values and attitudes such as attitude to gender equality, concern for environmental protection, and sentiment toward immigrants change over time and relate to socio-demographic indicators such as age, education, income, and urbanisation.
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