Assessment of an indicator of community appreciation of biodiversity. Data package for the Biodiversity Indicator Program: First assessment

This data collection contains the data, processes and descriptions of workflows required to produce the community appreciation of biodiversity indicator, as used in the NSW Biodiversity Indicator Program Report card: Community appreciation of biodiversity, Supplement to the NSW Biodiversity Outlook Report, first assessment. The data set and analysis draws on the 2015 iteration of the ‘Who cares about the environment’ survey conducted by the Social Research Centre (a subsidiary of the Australian National University) on behalf of the then NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH). Although not developed to measure Community appreciation of biodiversity, the survey included questions that were related to biodiversity that could be used to measure the indicator dimensions, that is, cognitive, affective, and behavioural appreciation of biodiversity. Details of the development of the Community appreciation of biodiversity indicator and the baseline test of it are available in ‘Assessment of an indicator of community appreciation of biodiversity’ technical report. See related links to these publications.