Survey Responses on Climate Term Familiarity and Policy Support in Los Angeles County
by Jenna Blyler·Updated 11d ago
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Description
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
figshare
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
License is CC-BY-4.0, requiring attribution. The dataset is 33.5 KB, indicating a very limited scope.