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

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 nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: utf8

Dataset Reference Date (): 2019-02-11

Dataset Reference Date (): 2018-12-14

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

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38

Other citation details: Farkas, K., Green, E., Cross, P., Jones, D.L. (2019). Perception of environmental and other risks - data from a 2018 social science questionnaire in the UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38

Bangor University - Farkas, K.

Bangor University - Green, E.

Bangor University - Cross, P.

Bangor University - Jones, D.L.

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

Bangor University - Farkas, K.

Bangor University

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

Human Health and Safety

Keywords

Norovirus
Antibiotic resistance
Risk perception
Shellfish hygiene
Water safety

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Other constraints: This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Farkas, K., Green, E., Cross, P., Jones, D.L. (2019). Perception of environmental and other risks - data from a 2018 social science questionnaire in the UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38

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Health

Begin date: 2018-02-15

End date: 2018-02-20

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Comma-separated values (CSV) ()

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: 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.

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File identifier: 0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)

Resource type: nonGeographicDataset

Hierarchy level name: nonGeographicDataset

Metadata Date: 2022-05-18T13:09:31

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Environmental Information Data Centre

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK

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