Communicating Forecast Uncertainty (CoFU) Surveys and Data

In 2006 the research team of Julie Demuth, Jeff Lazo, and Rebecca Morss from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and Alan Stewart of The University of Georgia designed and implemented a survey of the general public of the United States to explore a range of issues related to the communication, use, understanding, and value of weather forecasts. In 2022, with support provided by the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) we reimplemented essentially the same survey. To the maximum extent possible the exact same survey instrument, implementation methods, and target population were replicated. Five additional topics were included at the end of the instrument to begin to assess these related concepts (cultural risk theory, numeracy, perceived vulnerability, political preferences, and risk preferences). This project includes the survey instruments and dataset from the 2006 and 2022 implementations