Dear participants,
This questionnaire aims to collect information about individuals who since the beginning of the energy crisis in 2021-2022 in Hungary have had personal experience in indoor spaces outside of the home of being:
- cold during the heating season and/or
- uncomfortably warm in summer.
This refers to indoor spaces where one stays:
- for longer periods of time to fulfill essential roles (for work or study purposes - for example at the university, school, workplace, and others) and/or
- for a shorter period of time (leisure or for receiving services - such as but not limited to gym, religious objects, hospitals, restaurants, hair salons, shopping malls, cinemas, libraries, museums, hotels, language schools, bookstores, shops, etc.) and/or
- while using public transportation (for example bus, train, etc.).
The energy crisis in 2021-2022 affected Europe, but Hungary was especially vulnerable because the utility discount program (rezsicsökkentés) was reduced. The high energy prices affected the public and private sectors alike. The purpose of this survey is to explore the extent and the type of public and private sectors affected, leaving under-heated or under-cooled indoor places, from the point of view of individual personal experiences of those spending time in such public or private spaces outside of the home. Your contribution will immensely help us understand the prevalence and impacts of inadequate indoor temperature outside of the home since the start of the energy crisis in 2021-2022 in Hungary.
Filling out the questionnaire takes about 15 minutes.
Participation in this questionnaire is voluntary and anonymous. Personal data is not collected. The collected information will be used, stored, shared, and published in an anonymized format for research purposes. The survey has been approved, following the ethical research review process of the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences as performed by the Institutional Ethics Review Board (no. 1-FOIG/18-12/2024).
This questionnaire is part of the project: Hungary in the energy crisis: From energy poverty to energy scarcity supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Budapest under PD_23 OTKA grant no. 145881, and implemented by HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary – see here.
For any questions, please contact us at Felmeres.PTI@tk.hu
Feel free to share this survey with others who might have experienced similar situations.
Thank you very much for your contribution in advance!
Dr Ana Stojilovska, OTKA_145881 project team, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences
By filling out this questionnaire you give your informed consent to give information that will be used, stored, shared, and published in an anonymized format for research purposes.
