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Insights from the ESS ICOS Cities Panel
Speakers: Diana Zavala-Rojas and Agustin Blanco Bosco, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Date and time: Wednesday, 17th September 2025, 12:00 – 13:00 (BST)
Abstract
What do people living in Paris and Munich think about climate change? How aware are they of city climate policies, and to what extent do they support them? Who do they trust most to take meaningful action: local or national governments?
Cities play a central role in addressing climate change, as they are responsible for a large share of greenhouse gas emissions.
Understanding urban attitudes towards climate change and climate policies is essential for shaping effective strategies and interpreting environmental data.
In this survey methods webinar, Diana Zavala-Rojas will present findings from implementing the European Social Survey (ESS) ICOS Cities Panel.
The Panel was a three-wave longitudinal survey (2023-24) fielded in Munich and Paris to explore residents’ views on climate change and their opinions of city policies designed to mitigate it.
The presentation will cover the methodological challenges in implementing a city-wide survey for the first time in the history of the ESS, and will consider some of the data collected.
The ESS ICOS City panel was part of the project Pilot Application in Urban Landscapes – Towards integrated city observatories for greenhouse gases project funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme Grant Agreement 101037319.
About the speaker
Diana Zavala-Rojas, PhD, is a social statistician with an interest in all aspects of the human data lifecycle. She specialises in multinational, multiregional and multilingual comparative social research. She is the Deputy Director (External Relations) of the European Social Survey (ESS) ERIC. Her work in the ESS contributes to questionnaire design, translation, measurement quality, cross-national equivalence and documentation of the data lifecycle. She has contributed to the design of ESS questionnaires from Round 6 to Round 13 and is a member of the ESS Translation Expert Panel.
At Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, she has been principal investigator on several Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects aimed at advancing the digitisation of the social sciences. As a scientific adviser, she has extensive experience in questionnaire design, measurement quality and survey data analysis. She also regularly teaches specialist courses in statistics, data analysis, questionnaire design and related methodological areas. One of her recent papers examines the use of machine translation in survey research.
Agustin Blanco Bosco is a PhD student at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), and a researcher at the Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM), where he is working for the ESS and the ICOS Cities-PAUL project. His thesis is focused on LGBTQ+ politics and public opinion. He has experience on data analysis, data visualization and is also interested in researching LGBTQ+ survey methodology. He previously worked at the Centre d’Estudis d’Opinió (CEO) in Barcelona and holds a Master’s degree in Political and Electoral Analysis from Universidad Carlos III (UC3M) in Madrid.
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