GBRWHA Resident Survey: Activities and Preferences Aggregated by Postcode

1565 survey responses from residents of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, aggregated by postcode. The data was collected via a mail-out survey and supplementary face-to-face interviews, as part of Project 10.2 (NERP TE) by JCU and The Cairns Institute. It explores resident perceptions, willingness to pay for reef protection, and satisfaction with developments.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of resident engagement with the reef based on postcode-aggregated activity data.
• Model willingness to pay for reef protection based on survey responses about environmental values.
• Assess resident satisfaction with developments in the GBRWHA using aggregated survey results.
• Compare demographic response rates between mail and face-to-face survey methods described in the collection process.

Strengths

• 1565 total completed resident questionnaires, combining mail and face-to-face methods.
• Data collection followed a structured methodology including reminder letters to improve response rates.
• Dataset is accompanied by 58 GIS maps for visual analysis of key variables by postcode.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The data is aggregated by postcode; original raw individual responses are unavailable for privacy reasons.
• Row count for the aggregated tabular data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, originating from JCU and The Cairns Institute for NERP TE Project 10.2.

Collection Method

Mail-out survey to a geographically stratified random sample of households, supplemented by face-to-face interviews at public locations.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 12:15:04.041065; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and its catchment area, aggregated by postcode.