Hilde Orten‡, David Rayner§, Eirik Stavestrand‡, Iris Alfredsson §, Ilze Lace §, Irena Vipavc Brvar|, Maja Dolinar|, Joachim Wackerow¶, Hannah Clark#Corresponding author: Hilde Orten ( hilde.orten@gmail.com ) © Hilde Orten, David Rayner, Eirik Stavestrand, Iris Alfredsson , Ilze Lace , Irena Vipavc Brvar, Maja Dolinar, Joachim Wackerow, Hannah Clark. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Orten H, Rayner D, Stavestrand E, Alfredsson I, Lace I, Vipavc Brvar I, Dolinar M, Wackerow J, Clark H (2023) Climate and Air Quality Indices for the European Social Survey. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e114675 |  |
Knowledge of how personal experience with climate and air quality influence personal attitudes, concerns, and actions about environmental issues is increasingly important. A solid foundation for such studies is to combine interview or survey data on respondents’ attitudes and beliefs with indices created from independent meteorological or environmental monitoring data matched to the respondents location.
In this project, indicators of climate and air pollution were integrated with data from the European Social Survey for a selection of large European urban regions. A prototype provenance description application was also developed for describing the workflow for creating indicators and integrating data.
Our main focus was on creating indicators that represent regional anomalies in local air quality and weather for a range of time windows up-to-and-including the dates of the interviews. The goal is to facilitate investigation of relationships between urban citizen’s attitudes and behaviors as represented in the survey responses and the conditions in their local environment.