35 Coast Guard officers were interviewed across eighteen fisheries harbours in Sri Lanka. The dataset contains qualitative interview data exploring factors shaping officers' self-legitimacy, work conditions, and enforcement challenges. The study was authored by Gule Godage, Lasuni and published in March 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze interview transcripts to identify key themes affecting officers' self-legitimacy and authority beliefs.
- Compare enforcement challenges reported across different fisheries harbours in Sri Lanka.
- Study the relationship between work conditions and officers' reported commitment to conservation objectives.
Strengths
- Data is based on 35 in-depth, semi-structured interviews.
- Interviews cover a specific geographic scope of eighteen fisheries harbours in Sri Lanka.
Limitations
- Small sample size of 35 officers limits statistical generalizability.
- Data is qualitative and text-based, requiring thematic analysis rather than quantitative modeling.
- Findings are specific to the Sri Lankan context and may not be directly transferable.
Provenance
- Source
- Human Dimensions of Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Fishing organization.
- Collection Method
- Semi-structured interviews.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Data was last updated in March 2026.
- Geography
- Sri Lanka, specifically eighteen fisheries harbours.