Qualitative Expansion of Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Personal Experience of Flooding Data, 2014-2015

This data is an expansion of a previous dataset also archived within the UK Data Archive published by Pidgeon et al (2016) and available here 10.5255/UKDA-SN-851835 The data was collected to examine people's responses to the flooding events that impacted the UK in the winter of 2013/2014. The dataset contains data from a nationally representative UK sample plus a sample from areas affected by the flooding (Total N = 1997). The survey assessed climate change beliefs, flooding experience, and perceptions of the flooding. This dataset contains all concepts previously listed but adds two new variables: reasons provided for emotional responses to climate change coded into categories, and interrater agreement for codes provided.