Extended Data Table 1 The table shows the attributes and attribute levels that are used in the conjoint experiment to construct the asylum-seeker profiles.

From: Europeans’ support for refugees of varying background is stable over time

  1. The list is based on the exact wording shown to respondents in the United Kingdom. Note: ⋆ For Reason for Migrating the attribute level “War” was added in the 2022 wave of the survey to better capture the Ukrainian crisis. We included “Seeking better economic opportunities” as one of the values for the Reason for Migrating attribute because the group of asylum seekers who come to Europe is heterogeneous and, in fact, includes people who migrate in search of economic opportunities. These types of asylum seekers are often referred to as economic migrants, and from a purely legal perspective, a person who migrates for purely economic reasons does not meet the requirements to be granted refugee status under international law, which requires that the person faces persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, or political opinion. Our conjoint experiment was designed to capture these various motivations of asylum seekers, rather than limiting the profiles to the narrower group of asylum seekers that meet the requirements of refugee status under the 1951 Refugee Convention, in order to investigate the extent to which public preferences are consistent with international law.
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