Data from: A survey of researchers' needs and priorities for data sharing

In May-June 2020 PLOS surveyed researchers from Europe and North America to rate tasks associated with data sharing on (i) their importance to researchers and (ii) researchers' satisfaction with their ability to complete those tasks. <br>Researchers were recruited via direct email campaigns, promoted Facebook and Twitter posts, a post on the PLOS Blog, and emails to industry contacts who distributed the survey on our behalf. Participation was incentivized with 3 random prize draws, which were managed separately to maintain anonymity.<br><br>This dataset consists of:1) The survey sent to researchers (pdf).2) The anonymised data export of survey results (xlsx).<br>The data export has been processed to retain the anonymity of participants. The comments left in the final question of the survey (question 17) have been removed. Answers to questions 12 to 16 have been recoded to give each answer a numerical value (see 'Scores' tab of spreadsheet). The counts, means, standard deviations and confidence intervals used in the associated manuscript for each factor are given in rows 619-622.<br>Version 2 contains only the completed responses. Completed responses in the version 2 dataset refer to those who answered all the questions in the survey. The version 1 dataset contains a higher number of responses categorised as 'completed' but this has been reviewed for version 2.<br><br>Version 1 data was used for the preprint: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/njr5u.