electricsheepafrica/hdx-climate-change-opinion-survey

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# Climate Change Opinion Survey

**Publisher:** AI for Good at Meta · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/climate-change-opinion-survey) · **License:** `other-pd-nr` · **Updated:** 2026-03-26

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## Abstract

In partnership with Yale, Meta launched a climate change opinion survey that explores public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behaviors. 2023 aggregated survey responses now available.

The 2022 survey includes respondents from nearly 200 countries and territories. We are sharing country level data from this survey, providing policymakers, research institutions, and nonprofits with an international view of public climate change opinion.

For more information please see https://ai.meta.com/ai-for-good/datasets/climate-change-opinion-survey/

If you're interested in becoming a research partner and accessing record level data, please email [e-mail].

Each row in this dataset represents first-level administrative unit observations. Data was last updated on HDX on 2026-03-26. Geographic scope: **ALB, DZA, ASM, AGO, AIA, ATG, ARG, ARM, and 185 others**.

*Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica).*

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## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Climate and environment |
| **Unit of observation** | First-level administrative unit observations |
| **Rows (total)** | 5,140 |
| **Columns** | 11 (4 numeric, 7 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 4,112 rows |
| **Test split** | 1,028 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | ALB, DZA, ASM, AGO, AIA, ATG, ARG, ARM, and 185 others |
| **Publisher** | AI for Good at Meta |
| **HDX last updated** | 2026-03-26 |

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## Variables

**Geographic** — `region` (Europe, Asia, Southwest Asia & North Africa), `country_code` (hk, jp, no), `country` (Hong Kong, Japan, Norway).

**Outcome / Measurement** — `pct` (range 0.0–86.5244).

**Identifier / Metadata** — `esa_source` (HDX), `esa_processed` (2026-04-04).

**Other** — `response` (I have not done this, I have done this, Not applicable), `freq` (range 0.0–2155.7138), `n` (range 12.4363–2836.0), `prop` (range 0.0–0.8652), `variable` (barriers_heatpump_haventadopted, barriers_ev_haventadopted, barriers_solar_haventadopted).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/hdx-climate-change-opinion-survey")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()
```

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## Schema

| Column | Type | Null % | Range / Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| `region` | object | 0.0% | Europe, Asia, Southwest Asia & North Africa |
| `country_code` | object | 0.0% | hk, jp, no |
| `country` | object | 0.0% | Hong Kong, Japan, Norway |
| `response` | object | 0.0% | I have not done this, I have done this, Not applicable |
| `freq` | float64 | 0.0% | 0.0 – 2155.7138 (mean 100.6589) |
| `n` | float64 | 0.0% | 12.4363 – 2836.0 (mean 608.2886) |
| `prop` | float64 | 0.0% | 0.0 – 0.8652 (mean 0.1557) |
| `pct` | float64 | 0.0% | 0.0 – 86.5244 (mean 15.5693) |
| `variable` | object | 0.0% | barriers_heatpump_haventadopted, barriers_ev_haventadopted, barriers_solar_haventadopted |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-04 |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `freq` | 0.0 | 2155.7138 | 100.6589 | 39.2444 |
| `n` | 12.4363 | 2836.0 | 608.2886 | 551.0772 |
| `prop` | 0.0 | 0.8652 | 0.1557 | 0.0955 |
| `pct` | 0.0 | 86.5244 | 15.5693 | 9.5545 |

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## Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (`N/A`, `null`, `none`, `-`, `unknown`, `no data`, `#N/A`) were unified to `NaN`. The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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## Limitations

- Data originates from AI for Good at Meta and has not been independently validated by ESA.
- Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
- This dataset spans 193 countries; geographic and methodological inconsistencies across national boundaries may affect cross-country comparability.
- Refer to the [original HDX dataset page](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/climate-change-opinion-survey) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_hdx_climate_change_opinion_survey,
title = {Climate Change Opinion Survey},
author = {AI for Good at Meta},
year = {2026},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/climate-change-opinion-survey},
note = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}
```

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*[Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica) — Africa's ML dataset infrastructure. Lagos, Nigeria.*