West Hawai'i Community Interviews on Coastal Well-Being and Ecosystem Services, 2018-2019

West Hawai'i community members involved in coastal and marine conservation provided qualitative interview data. The dataset contains 31 semi-structured interviews conducted between April 2018 and March 2019, with participants from state/federal agencies, NGOs, private sector, and local organizations. Interviews were coded into a multi-level structure with over 200 codes covering human well-being, cultural ecosystem services, and environmental changes.

Use Cases

• Analyzing perceptions of human well-being linked to marine environments based on coded interview themes.
• Studying community-defined cultural ecosystem services (CES) based on the sub-code structure mentioned.
• Investigating changes to the marine environment and their impacts as reported by local stakeholders.
• Examining the perspectives of different stakeholder groups (e.g., government, NGO, private sector) on coastal management.

Strengths

• Includes 31 detailed interviews with a defined sampling strategy (key informant, purposive, snowball).
• Interview data is structured using a multi-level coding framework with over 200 codes.
• Covers a diverse range of stakeholders from government, NGO, private, and community sectors.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is stored in TAR and PDF formats, which may require extraction and conversion for analysis.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

31 semi-structured interviews, coded into a multi-level structure.

Time Range

April 2018 to March 2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-14 23:00:38.733472; freshness should be verified.

Geography

West Hawai'i