A global expert elicitation on present-day human-fire interactions: data & analysis code

These files support "A global expert elicitation on present-day human-fire interactions", accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2023-0463

The files contain data from a survey of experts on human-fire interactions as well as code used to process and analyse it.

An overview of the files is given below. 

1) Data

Raw survey data are provided by geographic region ("GFUS_region"). Data processed to produce analyses in the associated paper are provided as "GFUS_Processed".

Columns in data files are named by the question of the survey that generated them (Q1b through Q90). The contents of the associated questions that were asked are given in the data_dictionary.xlsx file.

- GFUS_spatial provides the data merged with a shapefile of the survey regions. 

- "Gov_compare" and "LIFE_SH_fire" provide files to compare survey data with the DAFI and LIFE literature meta-analyses (see Supplementary 3 to the main text).

- Question meta-data and question-summary provides an overview of the questions, as well as a topline overview of the numbers of responses and internal coherence (entropy) of survey responses. 

2) Code

4 scripts are provided. 

- Firstly the script that was used to summarise survey responses by geographic region (Summarise_by_region)- Secondly the code used to conduct statistical tests presented in the paper- Thirdly the code used to produce plots in the paper- Fourthly the code used to produce topline descriptive statistics presented in the paper