A Nationwide Survey of Bilingual Broadcast Meteorologists and their Climate Change Reporting Practices

This reference report documents the full survey instrument and descriptive statistics from A Nationwide Survey of Bilingual Broadcast Meteorologists and Their Climate‑Change Reporting Practices (N = 40). The questionnaire focuses on bilingual television meteorologists across U.S. markets and covers four principal areas. First, it gathers a detailed professional and demographic profile, including age, gender, ethnicity, race, education, job title, broadcast tenure, market location, and professional certifications such as NWA and AMS seals. Second, a series of Likert‑type items probes respondents’ perceptions of their on‑air and off‑air responsibilities for climate coverage, the degree of managerial support and available resources, and the influence of audience politics, scientific evidence, and local conditions on editorial choices. Third, the instrument explores audience engagement and framing practices: bilingual weathercasters rate audience interest at local, regional, national, and global scales, rank their three primary communication goals, and indicate how frequently they employ thirteen thematic frames ranging from scientific consensus and economic impacts to public‑health consequences and climate justice. Finally, the survey examines Spanish‑language production and translation resources by asking how often participants deliver climate content in Spanish, how prepared they feel to do so, which dictionaries or networks they consult for terminology, whether they differentiate “tiempo” and “clima,” and how often they feature Hispanic or Latinx experts and reference viewers’ home countries. Together, these data provide a comprehensive foundation for analyzing how bilingual weathercasters navigate scientific accuracy, newsroom constraints, and culturally responsive storytelling when reporting climate change to Hispanic and Latino audiences.