WxEM Wave 1

This report describes the results of a regularly distributed survey of nationwide Emergency Managers as part of The Extreme Weather and Emergency Management Survey (WxEM) series. This project aims to send surveys to Emergency Managers across the United States three to four times a year, although that frequency may change based on Emergency Manager and research needs. The Extreme Weather and Emergency Management Survey, Wave 1 (WxEM Wave 1) was designed and administered by the Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (IPPRA) at the University of Oklahoma. It is the first survey in the series (Stormer et al. 2023 and Wanless et al. 2023). WxEM Wave 1 opened on August 4, 2022, using an online questionnaire that as of this writing has been completed by 720 Emergency Management personnel that were contacted from an IPPRA built database of Emergency Managers from across the country (see Stormer et al. 2023 for more information on the database). WxEM Wave 1 was designed to recruit participants for the WxEM project. This survey gathers demographic information on enrollees, including location, jurisdiction type, and experience. This report presents an overview of the methodology of the survey data collection, and a reproduction of the survey instrument with frequencies for the questions that elicited numeric responses. Because this survey acts as an enrollment tool, it will remain open, and results may vary as participants are added and removed. Future reference reports will update the number of participants as the project continues.本报告阐述了针对全美应急管理人员（Emergency Manager）开展的常规调研成果，该调研隶属于极端天气与应急管理调研（Extreme Weather and Emergency Management Survey，缩写WxEM）系列项目。本项目计划每年向全美应急管理人员发放3至4轮调研问卷，不过调研频率可根据应急管理人员需求与研究需求调整。极端天气与应急管理调研第一波（WxEM Wave 1）由俄克拉荷马大学公共政策研究与分析研究所（Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis，缩写IPPRA）设计并实施，是该系列的首项调研（Stormer等人2023年及Wanless等人2023年相关研究）。WxEM第一波调研于2022年8月4日启动，采用线上问卷形式。截至本报告撰写时，已有720名从IPPRA搭建的全美应急管理人员数据库中受邀的应急管理从业人员完成问卷，有关该数据库的更多细节可参见Stormer等人2023年的研究。本调研旨在为WxEM项目招募参与者，并收集参与者的人口统计学信息，涵盖所在地、管辖类型与从业经验等维度。本报告概述了调研数据收集的方法论，同时呈现了调研问卷的原文，并列出了所有可产生数值型应答问题的频次统计结果。由于本调研作为招募工具将持续开放，随着参与者的新增与退出，调研结果或发生变动。后续相关报告将随项目推进及时更新参与者人数。