Levels of awareness about fracking in the United Kingdom 2012-2021

Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 11, 2023
The level of awareness of UK residents almost doubled between 2012 and 2021. A 2021 survey conducted by the UK Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) found that 57 percent of UK's residents have some knowledge of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) as a method of extracting shale gas to generate heat and electricity. This is an increase compared to 32 percent of respondents in 2012. By comparison, 15 percent of UK's residents never heard of fracking in 2021.

Knowledge of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas before today*

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Release date

May 2021

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Number of respondents

4,029*

Age group

Special properties

UK households

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview

Supplementary notes

* From 2012 to 2020, the question was: 'Before today, how much, if anything did you know about hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, otherwise known as 'fracking'?'

Survey base varied across the years.

Survey methodology up to 2018 was a Kantar face-to-face omnibus survey. Between 2020 and 2021, a temporary Kantar online panel type of survey was introduced, which was not based on a random sample of respondents. Due to a change in survey methodology, the source states that direct comparisons between time series is not possible.
This statistic using original data from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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