New Zealand Public Opinion on Live Export Policy from 2023 and 2024 Surveys

Two independent representative surveys of nearly 2,000 New Zealanders in 2023 and 2024 capture public attitudes toward the live export of livestock by sea. The data, created by Gosia Zobel and shared under CC-BY-4.0, reveals a principled opposition, with 94.8% agreeing farm animal welfare is important and 59.3% opposing trade reinstatement despite knowledge gaps.

Use Cases

• Analyze demographic influences on policy support based on age, location, and farming involvement variables.
• Model public trust in industry regulation using the low trust rating score (1.61/5).
• Track changes in perceived positive impacts of the trade between the two survey years.
• Investigate the relationship between knowledge gaps (e.g., 56.3% industry unfamiliarity) and definitive policy stances.

Strengths

• Includes two independent, representative surveys with 993 and 1,005 respondents, totaling nearly 2,000 data points.
• Examines attitudes across multiple dimensions: welfare, regulation, knowledge, support, impacts, trust, and acceptability of safeguards.
• Provides specific, quantified public opinion metrics, such as 78.8% believing sea transport is stressful for animals and 51.8% indicating no safeguards would make reversal acceptable.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 56.0 KB file size suggests a small, likely aggregated dataset rather than raw individual responses.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Two independent representative surveys conducted in 2023 (n=993) and 2024 (n=1,005).

Time Range

2023-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 05:28:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New Zealand