ENVIDAT presents stated preference data on improved forest management measures from seven Swiss municipalities in Grisons and Valais. The data was collected via an online questionnaire between October 2019 and February 2020, receiving 939 responses from 10289 invited households. It includes a choice experiment with twelve tasks assessing willingness to pay for avalanche and rock fall risk reduction, alongside sociodemographic and attitudinal questions.
Use Cases
- Model willingness to pay for avalanche and rock fall risk reduction based on choice experiment tasks.
- Analyze the impact of sociodemographic characteristics on stated preferences for forest management.
- Study risk perception and attitudes towards environmental protection funding mechanisms.
- Evaluate policy scenarios for forest management cost allocation based on public choice data.
Strengths
- Data collection targeted 10289 households, yielding 939 responses.
- Choice experiment includes twelve consecutive tasks with varying risk reduction and cost allocation attributes.
- Includes sociodemographic, attitudinal, and risk willingness questions for contextual analysis.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 2020-01-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- ENVIDAT
- Collection Method
- Online questionnaire.
- Time Range
- October 2019 to February 2020.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2020-01-01 00:00:00.
- Geography
- Seven municipalities in the Cantons of Grisons and Valais, Switzerland.