2412| OPINIONS AND ATTITUDES OF SPANIARDS TOWARDS BIOTECHNOLOGY

— Degree of interest and information it has on cultural, economic and labor issues, sports, political issues, scientific and technological advances, international issues, ecology and medical advances. — Opinion on the risks and benefits that the development of science and technology will bring with it in the next twenty years. Opinion on whether risks or benefits will predominate. — Degree of agreement with phrases related to science and technology. — Opinion on the degree of contribution in improving the quality of life of different innovations or advances: information or computer technology, genetic engineering, space exploration, biotechnology, solar energy, internet, telecommunications, in vitro fertilisation, nuclear energy and organ transplants. Opinion on whether in the future these scientific advances will improve or worsen the quality of life. Fields in which he would like there to be more or less scientific advances in the coming years. — Degree of information you have about ‘genetic engineering’ or ‘biotechnology’. — Opinion on the degree of danger of advances in biotechnology for people and the environment. — Agreement with the application of genetic engineering techniques in: plant cells, bacteria, animal cells, human cells and in human embryos. — Scale of acceptance or rejection of the use of genetic engineering to: make crops more resistant to frost and pests; get livestock fattening faster; get the bacteria to clean up the black tides; diagnose inherited diseases of people and to apply new treatments. — Agreement with the use of genetic engineering techniques in agriculture and food production. — Degree of agreement with different phrases about genetically modified foods. — Willingness to consume genetically modified potatoes through the introduction of corn genes. Attitude in case they were cheaper. — Degree of confidence that the food we buy is healthy and does not involve health risks. — Opinion on the obligation to warn in the labelling of foods if they have been genetically modified. — Knowledge of the Human Genome project. Opinion on the importance of this project. — Degree of agreement with the use of genetic engineering to: prevent children from inheriting serious diseases; cure serious genetic diseases; improve the physical characteristics that children can inherit and to improve the intelligence that children can inherit. — Degree of interest in that, in the future, medical diagnoses of a genetic nature could be made, to determine whether or not certain genes are possessed. — Persons or entities that would have the right to know the results of their genetic analysis: your doctor, your company, the police, the insurance companies and the state. — Attitude towards assisted reproduction techniques. Personal willingness to use them if necessary. — Use of assisted reproduction techniques by the interviewee, a family member or a friend or acquaintance. — Personal preference in the event that the couple had fertility problems and wish to have a child: adoption or use of assisted reproduction techniques. — Attitude towards the scientific experiments that are being carried out in cell cloning. — Opinion on whether human cloning will be possible in ten or twenty years. — Attitude towards human cloning. Opinion on whether a law should be drafted in Spain to prevent the cloning of human beings. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Vote recall in March 2000 general elections.