Introduction This report summarises the key findings from a survey of 1,598 Chilean citizens about their attitudes toward the mining industry. This project was funded by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and is part of a larger program of work to understand and articulate the views of citizens in mining jurisdictions around the world. To date, national scale surveys have also been conducted in Australia and China, and a pilot survey completed in Zambia. Following an environmental scan, literature review and discussion zone sampled and how many participants in each zone lived in with local CSIRO personnel, a quantitative survey of 1,598 citizens was mining and non-mining areas. conducted in late 2013 using a household survey methodology. Data was collected from four geographic zones within Chile: Northern Zone Participants were recruited face to face by Feedback Communications, a (including Regions I, II, specialist data collection company in Chile, and the survey was completed III, IV and XV); Central Zone (including Regions V, VI and VII); Southern by participants in their home by interviewers. This data was collated, Zone (including Regions VIII, IX, X, XI and XIV), and; Metropolitan Zone cleaned and provided by Feedback Communications to CSIRO for analysis. (Santiago). These zones were chosen as they allowed for a comparison We used of perspectives from citizens living in mining regions, non-mining a broad definition of mining in this study, which included: coal mining, oil regions and urban or metropolitan contexts. details the number of and gas extraction, metal ore mining, non-metallic mineral mining and participants in each quarrying, exploration and other mining support services (i.e. mineral exploration). Table 1 Participants categorised by zone and whether they were located in a mining area or not. ZONE MINING VS NON-MINING AREAS TOTAL MINING NON-MINING METROPOLITAN OVERALL 398 0 0 398 Northern 310 90 0 400 Central 0 400 0 400 Southern 0 0 400 400 Metropolitan 708 490 400 1,598 Total
Introduction This report summarises the key findings from a survey of 1,598 Chilean citizens about their attitudes toward the mining industry. This project was funded by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and is part of a larger program of work to understand and articulate the views of citizens in mining jurisdictions around the world. To date, national scale surveys have also been conducted in Australia and China, and a pilot survey completed in Zambia. Following an environmental scan, literature review and discussion with local CSIRO personnel, a quantitative survey of 1,598 citizens was conducted in late 2013 using a household survey methodology. Data was collected from four geographic zones within Chile: Northern Zone (including Regions I, II, III, IV and XV); Central Zone (including Regions V, VI and VII); Southern Zone (including Regions VIII, IX, X, XI and XIV), and; Metropolitan Zone (Santiago). These zones were chosen as they allowed for a comparison of perspectives from citizens living in mining regions, non-mining regions and urban or metropolitan contexts. details the number of participants in each zone sampled and how many participants in each zone lived in mining and non-mining areas. Participants were recruited face to face by Feedback Communications, a specialist data collection company in Chile, and the survey was completed by participants in their home by interviewers. This data was collated, cleaned and provided by Feedback Communications to CSIRO for analysis. We used a broad definition of mining in this study, which included: coal mining, oil and gas extraction, metal ore mining, non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying, exploration and other mining support services (i.e. mineral exploration). Table 1 Participants categorised by zone and whether they were located in a mining area or not. ZONE MINING VS NON-MINING AREAS TOTAL MINING NON-MINING METROPOLITAN OVERALL Northern 398 0 0 398 Central 310 90 0 400 Southern 0 400 0 400 Metropolitan 0 0 400 400 Total 708 490 400 1,598
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