Survey Responses on Climate Term Familiarity and Policy Support in Los Angeles County

A June-August 2023 survey of 1,048 Los Angeles County residents, conducted by Jenna Blyler, examined familiarity and policy support for climate-related terms. Participants were randomly assigned to answer questions about one of five terms: 'climate justice', 'climate change', 'global warming', 'climate crisis', or 'climate emergency'. The data likely contains survey responses measuring familiarity, concern, perceived urgency, policy support, and willingness to change individual behavior.

Use Cases

• Compare public familiarity with different climate-related terms based on survey responses.
• Analyze the relationship between term familiarity and reported policy support.
• Investigate differences in concern and perceived urgency elicited by various climate communication terms.
• Examine the reported willingness to engage in sustainable behavior across different demographic groups.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a survey of 1,048 participants, providing a substantive sample size.
• The experimental design randomly assigned participants to one of five climate term conditions.
• Data collection was temporally bounded to June-August 2023.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is geographically limited to Los Angeles County, which may affect generalizability.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Randomized survey experiment.

Time Range

June-August 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 17:39:42; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Los Angeles County, USA