National Risk Survey

在民主社会中，风险管理政策需要以公众的态度、观念和偏好为指导。一项全国性的调查工作可以在帮助政府和行业的决策者理解和欣赏公民观点方面发挥关键作用。为实现这一目标，该项目将设计一项全国性调查的原型，涵盖与风险有关的广泛主题，包括风险认知、对社会、技术、环境和健康风险的比较评估，以及对风险管理政策和战略的态度和意见。这项研究将涉及人口特征、经济地位、世界观和政治价值观等问题。原型仪器的设计将由决策研究部门负责，马里兰大学调查研究中心的人员和一个咨询委员会将提供协助。该调查工具的设计将允许研究人员开发和测试与广泛的社会风险问题、公共政策制定和分析有关的决策理论和模型。

Within a democratic society, risk management policies need to be guided by public attitudes, perceptions, and preferences. A national survey effort can play a crucial role in helping decision makers in government and industry understand and appreciate citizens' views. Toward the objective, the project will design a prototype for a national survey covering a wide range of risk-related topics including risk perceptions, comparative evaluations of societal, technological, environmental, and health risks, and attitudes and opinions about risk management policies and strategies. The research will address questions about demographic characteristics, economic status, worldviews, and political values. The design of the prototype instrument will be the responsibility of Decision Research with the assistance of personnel from the Survey Research Center of the University of Maryland and an Advisory Committee. The survey instrument will be designed to allow researchers to develop and test theories and models of decision making pertaining to a wide range of societal risk issues, public policy formulation, and analysis.