Identification

Title

Perception of environmental and other risks - data from a 2018 social science questionnaire in the UK

Abstract

[This dataset is embargoed until December 1, 2020]. This dataset contains the answers gathered from the 806 participants who successfully finished an on-line survey on risk perception of environment-associated risks. The survey was launched on the 15th of February 2018 and ran for five days. The survey contained best worst scaling (BWS) to understand peopleâ€™s perceptions to certain risks. In this study 16 risks were included in the BWS including four air-, food- and waterborne illnesses and 12 other hazards. The BWS was run in two blocks to consider two factors: first the respondents selected which risk they fear the most/least and in the second block they selected the risk they believed they had the most/least control. The survey also contained a detailed questionnaire on the participants eating habits and health status. Participants were also asked about their knowledge on enteric pathogens and whether they have ever sought or would consider seeking advice on the symptoms. Respondents were also asked whether they have experienced the hazards described in the BWS and whether they have done anything to reduce the risks in their life. The data were collected to gather information on people perceptions on environment-associated risks. This was done to understand the common knowledge on environment-associated pollutants and enlighten issues regarding risk management and mitigation. The data were collected as part of the VIRAQUA project was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under the Environmental Microbiology and Human Health (EMHH) Programme (NE/M010996/1). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

health

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Human Health and Safety

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Norovirus

Antibiotic resistance

Risk perception

Shellfish hygiene

Water safety

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.648

East bounding longitude

1.768

North bounding latitude

60.861

South bounding latitude

49.864

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2018-02-15

End position

2018-02-20

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2019-02-11

date type

creation

effective date

2018-12-14

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

All data was collected online and facilitated by Research Now Ltd, UK. The company provided a spreadsheet with answers from 1006 respondents. Responses taking less than 5 minutes to complete the survey and those giving repetitive answers were excluded. The number of respondents included in the dataset is 806. The spreadsheet was converted to a CSV file for ingestion into the EIDC.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Â© Bangor University

Constraint set

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

eidc@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-10-18T13:05:06

Metadata language

eng