Phoenix Area Social Survey I, Sites

The dataset contains a subset of the 200-point survey created for PASS (Phoenix Area Social Survey) project. The main objective of PASS is to examine the reciprocal relationships, or the interplay, between the social and natural environments in an urban ecosystem. In order to understand this complex process, social scientists affiliated with the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project conducted a longitudinal social survey of Phoenix residents in 2001. The survey measured the social ties of individuals to their communities, values and sentiments regarding communities, behaviors that affect the natural environment, and satisfaction with the quality of life in the area. The community that people experience most intimately is the neighborhood. Our central research questions ask how neighborhood social ties, values, and behaviors are connected with one another in ways that reflect willingness to act socially and politically with respect to the environment, and how changing environmental conditions, in turn, affect the quality of human life. PASS II is being designed and will be administered in 2006.