The Attitudes and Practices of United Arab Emirates Consumers Towards Food Waste - A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study

The dataset consists of responses from a total of 1052 participants who took part in a study related to food waste. The data include variables from various domains, namely knowledge, awareness, attitude, and practice. The knowledge subdomain comprises two items, while the awareness subdomain consists of a single item. To assess participants' knowledge, the mean score of the two knowledge items is calculated. Similarly, for participants' knowledge and awareness, the mean score of the three items in the knowledge and awareness subdomains is computed. Higher scores indicate better knowledge and awareness regarding food waste, which corresponds to desirable behavior. The attitude subdomain includes validated questions related to personal, emotional, behavioral, and financial aspects of attitudes toward food waste. Each subdomain contains different numbers of items, specifically five, three, two, and four items, respectively. To evaluate participants' attitudes, the mean score of the items within each subdomain is calculated. Additionally, the overall attitude is assessed by computing the mean score of all fourteen items across the four attitude subdomains. Higher scores indicate more favorable attitudes toward food waste, reflecting desirable behavior. The practice domain consists of fifteen items, and the mean score of these items is used to assess participants' practice of food waste. In this case, higher scores reflect the worse practice of food waste, indicating undesirable behavior. Overall, this dataset provides information on participants' knowledge, awareness, attitude, and practice regarding food waste.