High School Student Opinions on Book Bans and Censorship in America

Anonymous survey responses from High School Students at New Roads gauge perspectives on book bans and censorship. The dataset includes agree/disagree, 1-10 scale, and open-ended questions. Zara Meyer published this 14.9 KB Excel file under a CC-BY-4.0 license in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze quantitative sentiment on book bans based on the 1-10 scale ratings.
• Identify common themes in student perspectives based on the open-ended question responses.
• Compare levels of agreement and disagreement on censorship issues based on the agree/disagree questions.
• Study the relationship between structured and unstructured feedback from a single student cohort.

Strengths

• Data is anonymous, protecting respondent privacy.
• Includes multiple question types: agree/disagree, 1-10 scale, and open-ended.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single high school (New Roads), limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Zara Meyer via figshare

Collection Method

Likely contains survey responses collected from High School Students at New Roads.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-26 19:34:22; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States (implied by focus on America)