Category | No | Number missing | No concerns/attribution (%) | Only concerns (%) | Attribution (%) | |
All | 30 047 | 2671 | 71.0 | 18.7 | 10.3 | |
Gender | Male | 14 399 | 1140 | 70.9 | 18.4 | 10.7 |
Female | 15 648 | 1531 | 71.2 | 18.9 | 9.9 | |
Age in years | 14–19 | 2665 | 228 | 75.6 | 16.0 | 8.4 |
20–29 | 4074 | 182 | 74.9 | 17.4 | 7.7 | |
30–39 | 6575 | 285 | 68.5 | 21.7 | 9.8 | |
40–49 | 6039 | 428 | 68.0 | 20.9 | 11.1 | |
50–59 | 5409 | 599 | 71.7 | 16.1 | 12.2 | |
60–70 | 5285 | 949 | 71.9 | 16.9 | 11.2 | |
Family income | Below €1000 | 3400 | 372 | 72.9 | 16.4 | 10.7 |
€1000–€2000 | 10 542 | 1043 | 72.3 | 17.4 | 10.4 | |
€2000–€3000 | 8791 | 647 | 70.4 | 19.7 | 10.0 | |
€3000–€4000 | 3840 | 248 | 70.2 | 19.0 | 10.8 | |
More than €4000 | 1734 | 139 | 69.1 | 21.5 | 9.4 | |
Not specified | 1740 | 222 | 67.4 | 22.2 | 10.4 | |
School education‡ | Low | 8476 | 1124 | 72.5 | 16.1 | 11.4 |
Intermediate | 9858 | 796 | 71.5 | 18.0 | 10.4 | |
High | 8610 | 476 | 68.4 | 22.2 | 9.4 | |
Other† | 3103 | 275 | 73.3 | 17.1 | 9.6 | |
Region | North Rhine-Westphalia West | 6399 | 552 | 73.5 | 17.4 | 9.0 |
North | 4739 | 402 | 71.9 | 18.7 | 9.4 | |
Middle | 3845 | 367 | 71.4 | 17.7 | 11.0 | |
South | 7996 | 696 | 64.2 | 23.0 | 12.8 | |
East | 7068 | 654 | 75.8 | 15.3 | 8.9 | |
City inhabitants | <100 000 | 23 619 | 2145 | 70.6 | 19.1 | 10.4 |
Distance to nearest mast* | ⩽500 m | 14 374 | 1152 | 71.4 | 18.5 | 10.1 |
>500 m | 15 431 | 1494 | 70.6 | 18.8 | 10.6 |
*Based on 29 805 persons, only persons with geo-coded residences.
†Includes participants still going to school, who left school without a school leaving certificate, or received other degrees, that is, from foreign schools.
‡Represents the German school system: low = “Volks- und Hauptschule”, intermediate = “Realschule/mittlere Reife”, high = “FH-Reife/Gymnasium (Abitur)”; the school types do not necessarily reflect years of education, but low is most likely 9–10 years, intermediate 10 years, and high 12–13 years.
Attribution, participants attributed own adverse health effects to mobile phone base stations; no concerns/attribution, participants neither concerned about health effects of mobile phone base stations nor attributed own adverse health effects to mobile phone base stations; only concerns, participants concerned about health effects of mobile phone base stations, but did not attribute own adverse health effects to mobile phone base stations; region, geographical demarcation.