DOI: 10.5683/sp3/ofqhrs
title: Environics International Environmental Monitor, 1999
title: EIEM, 1999

description: Environics International Environmental Monitors (EIEM) is a syndicated annual survey of global public opinion on a variety of environmental and natural resource issues. The findings of the 1999 Survey are based on the results of face-to face or telephone interviews with representative samples of about 1,000 citizens, in each of 27 countries on all six continents, representing 65 percent of the world's population. Research was conducted by respected social research institutes in each country between March 1, 1999 and August 27, 1999. A total of 42 questions were asked dealing with such topics as threats to future generations, factors affecting human health, choices involving the environment and the economy, concern about specific environmental issues, climate change, personal action, governance issues, corporate performance, the benefits and risks of modern technology, biotechnology, packaging and the automobile.
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description: Environics International Environmental Monitor
description: <b>Data Tracking</b>
For a number of questions we report tracking findings from the 1997 and 1998 Environmental Monitor surveys as well as the 1992 "Health of the Planet" survey conducted by the Gallup International Institute.

<b>Geographical Region</b>
The countries studied in this report have been grouped both regionally and by per capita purchasing power to aid in understanding global patterns. The seven regional groupings are:
<b>Africa:</b> Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa
<b>Asia:</b> China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia
<b>Eastern Europe / Central Asia:</b> Kazakhstan, Poland, and Russia
<b>Latin America:</b> Argentina, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela
<b>Mediterranean:</b> Greece, Italy, Spain, and Turkey
<b>North America / Oceania:</b> Australia, Canada, and the United States
<b>Northern Europe:</b> Finland, France, Germany, and Great Britain

<b>Gross Domestic Product</b>
There are three roughly equal-sized groups of 27 countries based on their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita (estimated by "purchasing power parity"):
<b>High GDP per capita (US$28,600-$19,000):</b> United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Finland (in decreasing order)
<b>Medium GDP per capita (US$15,300-$6,400):</b> Spain, Malaysia, Greece, Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, and Poland
<b>Low GDP per capita (US$6,100-$1,380):</b> Turkey, South Africa, Russia, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, China, India, and Nigeria

<b>Psychographic Segmentation</b>
Two psychographic segmentation analyses have also been created dividing people in all countries into various segments depending on the nature of their engagement with environmental issues and concerns.

<b>Figures and Charts</b>
All figures and charts in this report are expressed in percentages. Total percentages may not add up because of rounding. In the case of stacked bar charts, white space typically represents the portion of respondents who either answered "don't know" or did not answer at all.