Respondent Dataset, subjective information on how social influence works during an oil spill, coastal communities of Grand Isle and Venice, Louisiana, 2011.

The objective of this data collection is to study communication and influence during disaster response, with special emphasis on social networks and contexts as they condition the emotional responses of individuals in Louisiana most affected by the BP oil spill. The data were collected in the fall of 2011 using respondents from the coastal communities from Grand Isle, Louisiana and north, and Venice, Louisiana and north. The dataset uses an experimental manipulation of a 'name generator' question to determine not only the kinds of individuals utilized during disaster response, but also to determine if these individuals are substantively different from those used for other more general purposes. An experimental manipulation of the emotional response questions was also included. A subset of the dataset are re-interviews from a dataset collected approximately one year prior. In total, the resulting dataset has 897 respondents. The snowball survey design from the name generator questions produced a companion dataset of 104 individuals named by respondents as discussants during this time.