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

Survey data from two independent representative polls conducted in 2023 (n=993) and 2024 (n=1,005) examining 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 policy and welfare attitudes. It was last updated on May 11, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling public support for policy changes based on demographic variables like age and farming involvement.
• Analyzing shifts in perceived positive and negative impacts of live export between the two survey years.
• Investigating the relationship between industry trust scores and support for regulatory safeguards.
• Examining knowledge gaps, such as awareness of the industry and policy ban, across different population segments.

Strengths

• Includes two large, independent representative surveys with a total of 1,998 respondents.
• Provides specific statistical results, such as 94.8% agreement on the importance of animal welfare and a low industry trust score of 1.61/5.
• Examines attitudes at two distinct time points during a policy deliberation period.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 49.1 KB, indicating limited raw data or a summary document.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for detailed analysis.

Provenance

Source

Gosia Zobel

Collection Method

Two independent representative surveys conducted in 2023 and 2024.

Time Range

2023 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 05:28:39; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New Zealand