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Metadata: Questionnaire data about community place attachment, social cohesion, and connection with nature in the East of England 2024
Abstract:
Evidence source for understanding more about community place attachment, social cohesion, and connection with nature. The data was collected online from October 2024 to December 2024. It includes social data gathered through Likert scale questions, single and multiple open-ended questions, and sociodemographic data from a representative sample of Eastern England residents. The data encompasses various aspects such as: - Informed Consent- : Participants' agreement to participate in the study, understanding that their participation is voluntary and that their data will be used for research purposes. - Demographic Information- : Includes questions about participants' residential postcode, type of accommodation, home ownership status, duration of residence, gender, age, ethnic group, highest educational qualification, employment status, and annual household income. - Area Attachment- : Participants' level of agreement with statements about their attachment to their area, such as feeling attached to the area, identifying strongly with it, and having fond memories of it. - Natural Environment Attachment- : Participants' level of agreement with statements about their attachment to the natural environment in their area, such as feeling at peace in the natural environment and learning about themselves when spending time there. - Area Meaningfulness- : Participants' level of agreement with statements about why their area is meaningful to them, including its beauty, recreational opportunities, and cultural significance. - Concerns About Area Changes- : Participants' concerns about potential changes in their area, such as environmental or social changes. - Favourite Coastal Place- : Information about participants' favourite coastal place within the study area, including reasons for its significance and frequency of visits. - Travel and Activities- : Details about how participants travel to their favourite coastal place, the duration of the journey, and the activities they undertake while visiting
Data holder:
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS)
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 8960 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | Questionnaire data about community place attachment, social cohesion, and connection with nature in the East of England 2024 |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | CEFAS02696513-93c3-41a9-b50b-bbd9d57d2145 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | CEFAS22116 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2024-10-28 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2025-10-29 |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | Evidence source for understanding more about community place attachment, social cohesion, and connection with nature. The data was collected online from October 2024 to December 2024. It includes social data gathered through Likert scale questions, single and multiple open-ended questions, and sociodemographic data from a representative sample of Eastern England residents. The data encompasses various aspects such as: - Informed Consent- : Participants' agreement to participate in the study, understanding that their participation is voluntary and that their data will be used for research purposes. - Demographic Information- : Includes questions about participants' residential postcode, type of accommodation, home ownership status, duration of residence, gender, age, ethnic group, highest educational qualification, employment status, and annual household income. - Area Attachment- : Participants' level of agreement with statements about their attachment to their area, such as feeling attached to the area, identifying strongly with it, and having fond memories of it. - Natural Environment Attachment- : Participants' level of agreement with statements about their attachment to the natural environment in their area, such as feeling at peace in the natural environment and learning about themselves when spending time there. - Area Meaningfulness- : Participants' level of agreement with statements about why their area is meaningful to them, including its beauty, recreational opportunities, and cultural significance. - Concerns About Area Changes- : Participants' concerns about potential changes in their area, such as environmental or social changes. - Favourite Coastal Place- : Information about participants' favourite coastal place within the study area, including reasons for its significance and frequency of visits. - Travel and Activities- : Details about how participants travel to their favourite coastal place, the duration of the journey, and the activities they undertake while visiting |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | The data were collected in Excel and analysed using statistical software for data analysis, specifically STATA. The processing methods included: - Data Entry- : Responses were entered into the Excel file, capturing all relevant information such as demographic details, area attachment, natural environment attachment, area meaningfulness, concerns about area changes, favourite coastal places, and travel and activities. - Data Coding- : Open-ended responses were coded to categorize and quantify qualitative data. - Statistical Analysis- : Various statistical analyses were performed using STATA to derive insights and patterns from the data The quality control process conducted by Cefas staff |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Coastal environment |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Human impacts | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Socioeconomics | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Management | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Human activity | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Population distribution - demography | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Unknown | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | data.gov.uk | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 56 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 2 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -2.5 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
| Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
| Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
| City | Lowestoft | |
| Administrative area | Suffolk | |
| Country | UK | |
| data.manager@cefas.co.uk | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
| Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
| Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
| City | Lowestoft | |
| Administrative area | Suffolk | |
| Country | UK | |
| data.manager@cefas.co.uk | ||
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
| Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
| Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
| City | Lowestoft | |
| Administrative area | Suffolk | |
| Country | UK | |
| data.manager@cefas.co.uk | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
| Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
| Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
| City | Lowestoft | |
| Administrative area | Suffolk | |
| Country | UK | |
| data.manager@cefas.co.uk | ||
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) | |
| defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/22116 |
| Locator name | Name of the web resource | Cefas Data Portal |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | noLimitations | |
| 21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ | |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2025-02-04 |
| Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2025-10-29 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2025-01-29 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2025-10-29 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.1 |