New Zealand Public Attitudes Toward Livestock Export Surveys from 2023 and 2024

Two independent representative surveys conducted in 2023 (n=993) and 2024 (n=1,005) examined public knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes toward the live export of livestock by sea from New Zealand. The dataset was created by Gosia Zobel and investigates the influence of survey year, age, location, and farming involvement on various attitudes and policy support. It was last updated on 2026-05-11.

Use Cases

• Modeling public support for policy changes based on demographic factors mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing trends in industry trust and perceived animal welfare impacts over the two survey years.
• Investigating the relationship between knowledge gaps (e.g., industry familiarity) and principled opposition to the trade.

Strengths

• Two independent, representative surveys with substantial sample sizes (993 and 1,005 respondents).
• Includes specific, cited public opinion metrics, such as 94.8% agreement on the importance of animal welfare and a low industry trust score of 1.61/5.
• Analysis employs multiple regression models (binary logistic, multinomial logistic, linear) for different outcome types.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small (54.1 KB), indicating limited scope, likely containing aggregated results or summary statistics rather than raw survey responses.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Two independent representative surveys.

Time Range

2023 and 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 05:28:43; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New Zealand