Public acceptability of policy instruments for reducing fossil fuel consumption in East Africa

We collected data in five East African countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda) on public opinions about different policy instruments to reduce the use of fossil fuels in the transport sector. The questionnaire also included questions on the dependency on fossil fuels, the level of concern about different environmental challenges, trust in others and in government institutions and socio-demographic characteristics. The survey was performed under informed consent. A survey company based in Kenya was recruited to collect the data. The questionnaire was composed in English and then translated into the following languages: Kenya—Swahili and Somali; Tanzania—Swahili; Uganda—Luganda and Runyanoke; Rwanda—Kinyarwanda and French; and Ethiopia—Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo and Somali. These translations were performed by native-speaking translators recruited by the company. The interviews were conducted by 26 experienced enumerators and 5 supervisors using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI), and all responses were recorded with Kobo Toolbox software. Before conducting the interviews, the enumerators completed a two-day training session on the topics in the questionnaire and various techniques for collecting data using the CATI method. A pilot study was conducted in January 2022 with 200 respondents in each of the five focal countries to test the reliability and content validity of the questionnaire. Additionally, the pilot study enabled refining the questionnaire with feedback from both the enumerators and respondents. The company used its existing national databases of respondents involved in earlier investigations to recruit survey respondents in each of the five countries. Screening questions were used to recruit samples that were representative of the adult population in terms of age, gender and area of residence in the five countries. In total, 7,622 respondents were contacted. Following three reminders, a total of 4,766 responses with complete answers (63% response rate) were collected during March 17–28, 2022, in the five countries as follows: Ethiopia, 950; Kenya, 959; Rwanda, 991; Tanzania, 981; and Uganda, 885. Since questions regarding trust in institutions can be sensitive, we allowed respondents to opt out by answering "don't know". In the data, these responses are treated as missing values. As a result, we currently have 312 missing values for the question regarding trust in institutions. Respondents took between 10 and 23 minutes to complete the survey, with a mean completion time of 16 minutes. Research approval was received from the National Commission of Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) in Kenya, and the survey company possess national research permits for each of the five focal countries. The present data description is related to data descriptions "Public acceptance of policy instruments to reduce plastic pollution in East Africa" and " Public acceptance of policy instruments to reduce forest loss: Exploring cross-national variation in East Africa ". The three data descriptions are subsets of the same main data collection, and are part of the Environment for Development (EfD) catalog in the Swedish National Data Service. Each data description with its corresponding dataset contains only the relevant dependent variables for a particular research study. In particular, this dataset does not have questions q1, q2, q3 and q7, q8, q9, q10. Dependent variables for this study are q4, q5, q6. Missing data points are marked with the value 98.本数据集采集了东非五国（肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚、乌干达、埃塞俄比亚、卢旺达）民众针对交通领域减少化石燃料使用的各类政策工具的公众态度数据。问卷内容还涵盖化石燃料依赖度、各类环境挑战关切程度、对他人及政府机构的信任度，以及社会人口统计学特征相关问题。本次调查遵循知情同意原则开展，委托总部位于肯尼亚的专业调查公司负责数据采集工作。问卷初稿以英语编写，随后针对各国需求翻译为对应语言：肯尼亚使用斯瓦希里语与索马里语；坦桑尼亚使用斯瓦希里语；乌干达使用卢干达语与鲁扬约克语；卢旺达使用卢旺达语与法语；埃塞俄比亚使用阿姆哈拉语、提格雷尼亚语、奥罗莫语与索马里语。上述翻译工作均由该公司招募的母语译者完成。本次访谈由26名经验丰富的调查员与5名督导通过计算机辅助电话访谈（Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews, CATI）开展，所有访谈数据均通过Kobo Toolbox软件进行记录。正式访谈开展前，所有调查员均完成了为期两天的培训，内容涵盖问卷相关主题及计算机辅助电话访谈的数据采集技巧。2022年1月，本研究针对五个目标国家各开展了200名受访者参与的预调查，以检验问卷的信度与内容效度。此外，预调查通过收集调查员与受访者的反馈，对问卷进行了优化完善。该调查公司依托此前调研积累的全国性受访者数据库，在五个目标国家中招募本次调查的受访者，并通过筛选问题，招募了在年龄、性别与居住区域上符合五国成年人口代表性特征的样本。本次调研累计联系了7622名受访者，经三次提醒后，最终于2022年3月17日至28日在五国收集到4766份完整有效问卷，有效回收率为63%。各国家样本量分别为：埃塞俄比亚950份、肯尼亚959份、卢旺达991份、坦桑尼亚981份、乌干达885份。由于对机构信任度相关问题具有敏感性，本研究允许受访者通过回答“不知道”选择退出作答。在数据集中，此类作答将被视为缺失值，因此针对机构信任度问题，本数据集目前共有312个缺失值。受访者完成问卷的时长在10至23分钟之间，平均完成时长为16分钟。本研究已获得肯尼亚国家科学、技术与创新委员会（NACOSTI）的伦理批准，且调查公司已取得五个目标国家的全国性研究许可。本数据集说明关联另外两份数据集说明：《东非地区塑料污染治理政策工具的公众接受度》（Public acceptance of policy instruments to reduce plastic pollution in East Africa）与《东非地区森林流失治理政策工具的公众接受度：跨国差异探究》（Public acceptance of policy instruments to reduce forest loss: Exploring cross-national variation in East Africa）。三份数据集说明均来自同一核心数据采集项目，且均收录于瑞典国家数据服务中心的发展与环境（EfD）数据库目录中。每份数据集说明与其对应数据集仅包含特定研究所需的相关因变量。具体而言，本数据集未包含q1、q2、q3以及q7、q8、q9、q10相关问题，本研究的因变量为q4、q5、q6。数据集中的缺失值以数值98进行标记。