Vetenskapsbarometern

How interested are people in science? How much do they trust science and research? And which areas of research do they see as most important for the future? Every autumn since 2002, Public & Science Sweden has been measuring the Swedish public’s attitudes to research and science in the Swedish Science Barometer.

The Swedish Science Barometer has been conducted annually since 2002. The survey is conducted via telephone interviews with a stratified random sample of the Swedish population, around 1,000 people aged between 16 to 74 years old. The response rate has decreased over time since the survey began. Respondents are representative in terms of gender, age and place of residence. The results have been weighted since 2014 to ensure representativeness in terms of level of education.

Only statistically significant comparisons are commented on in the text, however, for the sake of clarity, the graphs sometimes display non-significant differences between categories and individual years. Interviews are conducted between August and October and completed before the yearly announcement of the Nobel Prize winners due to media attention surrounding the Nobel Prize. Exquiro Market Research has carried out the interviews since 2012. A reference group helps to formulate the questions.