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Table 9 Survey questions response percentages by size of municipality for Civil Servants

From: Stewardship and administrative capacity in green public procurement in the Czech Republic: evidence from a large-N survey

Questions

Answer

Size of municipality

Fisher's Exact Test

Up to 500

501–999

1000–9999

10,000–49,999

50,000 and more

It is socially useful to award 'green public contracts', i.e., contracts which they have in evaluation criteria include an environmental criterion

Absolutely disagree

0

0

0

0

6.7

0.006497

Somewhat disagree

4.7

5.3

7.5

15.6

20

Do not know

59.4

52.6

36.6

28.1

13.3

Somewhat agree

29.7

31.6

48.4

46.9

33.3

Absolutely agree

6.2

10.5

7.5

9.4

26.7

I am in favor of awarding public contracts that take into account the environmental criterion

Absolutely disagree

0

5.3

1.1

0

0

0.01749

Somewhat disagree

1.6

5.3

5.4

6.2

20

Do not know

50

42.1

23.7

21.9

20

Somewhat agree

37.5

42.1

54.7

46.9

40

Absolutely agree

10.9

5.3

15.1

25

20

Personally, I would prefer to announce a tender for a cheaper contract (without environmental requirements) before awarding a more expensive public contract with environmental characteristics

Absolutely disagree

0

0

0

3.1

0

0.4093

Somewhat disagree

25

36.8

34.4

40.6

33.3

Do not know

40.6

47.4

33.3

18.8

20

Somewhat agree

25

10.5

23.7

31.2

40

Absolutely agree

9.4

5.3

8.6

6.2

6.7

If I have information that a public contract with an environmental criterion increases the risk probability of appealing to the Office for Protection of Competition, then I will clearly prefer the public contract without environmental criterion

Absolutely disagree

0

0

1.1

9.4

20

0.0009995

Somewhat disagree

6.2

5.3

10.8

15.6

6.7

Do not know

42.3

47.4

26.8

9.4

6.7

Somewhat agree

40.6

36.8

43

37.5

33.3

Absolutely agree

10.9

10.5

18.3

28.1

33.3

If the contract has the following evaluation criteria: "employment criterion", "criterion support for local companies" and "criterion of ecological impact of public procurement on the environment", then I will always (or mostly) consider "criterion of ecological impact" as the most important criterion of public procurement

Absolutely disagree

0

0

2.2

6.3

6.7

0.3743

Somewhat disagree

20.3

26.3

30.1

34.4

40

Do not know

31.2

36.8

39.8

31.2

20

Somewhat agree

43.8

31.6

24.7

25

33.3

Absolutely agree

4.7

5.3

3.2

3.1

0

If I would like to include in the contract a criterion of ecological impact on the environment, then I would classify it as a general obligation of the supplier under the contract

Absolutely disagree

0

0

0

3.1

0

0.1819

Somewhat disagree

1.6

0

7.5

3.1

26.7

Do not know

29.7

31.6

26.9

18.8

20

Somewhat agree

56.2

68.4

55.9

65.6

46.7

Absolutely agree

12.5

0

9.7

9.4

6.7

  1. Bold values are statistically significant