BGS Hosted Metadata
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 people's perceptions to certain risks. In this study sixteen risks were included in the BWS including four air-, food- and waterborne illnesses and twelve 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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- Date (Publication)
- 2019-02-11
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-12-14
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38
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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
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Bangor University Farkas, K. Author Bangor University Green, E.
Author Bangor University Cross, P.
Author Bangor University Jones, D.L.
Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher Bangor University Farkas, K. Point of contact Bangor University EMAIL NOT PROVIDED
Owner
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Human Health and Safety
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- no limitations
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© Bangor University
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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
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Health
- Begin date
- 2018-02-15
- End date
- 2018-02-20
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38 Download the data
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38.zip Supporting information
- Hierarchy level
- Non geographic dataset
- Other
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nonGeographicDataset
Conformance result
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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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.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Non geographic dataset
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nonGeographicDataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T09:25:20
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
