0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:23:07 UK GEMINI 2.3 Perception of environmental and other risks - data from a 2018 social science questionnaire in the UK 2019-02-11 publication 2018-12-14 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38 10.5285/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38 doi: 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 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 Farkas, K. Bangor University k.farkas@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7068-3228 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Green, E. Bangor University emma.green@bangor.ac.uk author Cross, P. Bangor University paul.cross@bangor.ac.uk author Jones, D.L. Bangor University d.jones@bangor.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Farkas, K. Bangor University k.farkas@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7068-3228 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Bangor University EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner notPlanned Human Health and Safety theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication social survey GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Norovirus otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Bangor University otherRestrictions 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 English utf8 health 2018-02-15 2018-02-20 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0869d961-99ca-4946-9192-f35afccdda38.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 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 2010-12-08 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.