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Public Opinion on EMFs
We list below the studies we are aware of on public opinion on EMFs in the UK and Europe
Caution! The answer you get to a question depends very
much on how you ask it - what words you use and what introductory information
you give people before asking the question.With EMFs, it would appear that the more you talk about the science and
the possibility of a health risk (and, obviously, the more alarming you make it
sound) the more people will appear to be concerned.Conversely, the more you put EMF in the
context of other issues, the less people will seem to be concerned about
it.To understand the results of any
study (and to understand the widely varying results that have been obtained) you
need to know how the questions were asked.
Scottish Executive Environment Group
 "Public
Attitudes and Environmental Justice in Scotland" (2005)
John Curtice, Anne Ellaway, Chris Robertson, George Morris, Gwen Allardice and Ruth
Robertson.
MORI Opinion Polling work
commissioned by National Grid(5 surveys between 1997 and 2006).
See separate page with full details of this
Centre for Environmental Risk funded by the Department
of Health "Public Risk Perceptions of the Health Effects of Ionising Radiation and Power Frequency
Electromagnetic Fields" (2005)
reference RRX89
Patrick Cox, Nick Pidgeon, Iain Lake and Wouter Poortinga
University of Bristol funded by the Department
of Health
"Non-ionising radiation risk perception in exposed and non-exposed subjects and their
response to information on the nature of the risk" (1999)
reference RRX67
AW Preece, B Stollery and A Smith.
Opinion Leader commissioned by the charity Children with Leukaemia
"The public's view on an appropriate response to the relationship
between EMFs and childhood leukaemia"
Opinion Leader Research summary of a UK quantitative survey by TNS,commissioned by the charity Children
with Leukaemia
"The
public's view on an appropriate response to the relationship between EMFs and
childhood leukaemia" (2006)
Opinion Leader Research summary of a
quantitative survey in Scotland by TNS, commissioned
by the charity Children with Leukaemia
Scottish Attitudes on an appropriate response to the relationship between EMFs and childhood leukaemia"
(2006)
Eurobarometer requested by the
European Commission
"Electromagnetic
Fields" (2007)
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