title: Decomposing the effects of time on the social acceptability of biotechnology using age-period-cohort-country models.
abstract: The study of European attitudes toward biotechnologies underlines a situation that is relatively contrasting in Europe. However, as different effects of time can influence the social attitudes (a life-cycle effect, a generational effect, and an exogenous temporal effect potentially affecting the entire population), an appropriate methodology should be used. To this end, age-period-cohort-country models have thus been estimated based on Eurobarometer data from 1991 onward. Applied to different data subsets, these models give similar results underlining the importance of the life-cycle effects as well as the heterogeneity of the link between political affiliation and biotechnologies attitudes across the European countries.
authors.affiliation: Agrocampus Ouest, France.
authors.forename: Damien
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rousselière
authors.affiliation: Oniris, France.
authors.forename: Samira
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rousselière
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D001709:Biotechnology; D005060:Europe; D030841:Food, Genetically Modified; D011639:Public Opinion
keywords: biotechnology; genetically modified food; public understanding of science; risk attitudes; science attitudes and perceptions