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North Carolina Results of the Wildlife Viewer Survey

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posted on 2023-01-18, 15:56 authored by Emily SinkularEmily Sinkular, Christy PototskyChristy Pototsky, Ashley DayerAshley Dayer, Willandia ChavesWillandia Chaves, Kelsey JenningsKelsey Jennings, Jessica Barnes

  

Through a 2021 AFWA MultiState Conservation Grant, Virginia Tech and the AFWA Wildlife Viewing and Nature Tourism Working Group conducted national and state level surveys to gather more data on wildlife viewers. This dataset is from the survey conducted in North Carolina. It contains:

1. North Carolina Wildlife Viewer Survey.pdf: a pdf version of the survey instrument 

2. North Carolina_WildlifeViewerSurvey.csv: a csv (comma-separated values) file of the dataset 

3. North Carolina_WildlifeViewerSurvey.sav: a sav (compatible with SPSS, the Statistical Package for Social Science) file of the dataset

4. WildlifeViewerSurveyData_VariableGuide: a guide to each variable name in the datasets.

Funding

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Multistate Conservation Grant Program (grant # F21AP00617-00)

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission

History

Publisher

University Libraries, Virginia Tech

Location

Blacksburg, Virginia

Corresponding Author Name

Ashley Dayer

Corresponding Author E-mail Address

dayer@vt.edu

Files/Folders in Dataset and Description

[North Carolina Results of the Wildlife Viewer Survey - Dataset] - Online survey data and survey instrument to accompany the report North Carolina Results of the Wildlife Viewer Survey: Enhancing relevancy and engaging support from a broader constituency by Sinkular, Karns, Pototsky, and Dayer (2022). Report accessible at http://hdl.handle.net/10919/113114. This online survey was conducted from October 29-December 15, 2021 via Qualtrics. All 1,007 survey respondents resided in North Carolina for most of the year, were over the age of 18, and reported participating in wildlife viewing (defined as closely observing, photographing, or feeding wildlife, maintaining plantings or habitat for the benefit of wildlife, or taking trips to parks or other natural areas with the purpose of observing, feeding, or photographing wildlife) in the past five years. The survey was conducted with approval from the Virginia Tech Institutional Review Board (Protocol #20-1018). [WildlifeViewerSurveyData_VariableGuide.xlsx] - Codebook containing answer options for questions in survey instrument, in .docx format. [North Carolina Wildlife Viewer Survey.pdf] - Survey instrument containing all questions asked in pdf. [North Carolina_WildlifeViewerSurvey.csv] - Comma-separated value (CSV) file containing 1,007 individual and de-identified survey results. [North Carolina_WildlifeViewerSurvey.sav] - SPSS Data File (SAV) containing 1,007 individual and de-identified survey results.

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    Wildlife viewingNorth CarolinaSocial scienceFish and wildlifeState fish and wildlife agenciesOutdoor recreationBirdingHuman dimensionsConservation and BiodiversityWildlife and Habitat Management

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    CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

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