Joint Fire Science Program Fire Exchange Network evaluation data: 2011-2018

These files represent the data from the eight waves of national survey data from the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Evaluation Team at the University of Nevada, Reno collected from 2011-2018. Participants were collected via snowball sampling, and attitudes towards fire science were assessed across three dimensions of participants: consumers of fire science, producers of fire science, and the general public. Additionally, we asked respondents to report their attitudes regarding their respective regional fire exchanges specifically. Included within this data publication are copies of the evaluation reports prepared for each year as well as the national survey for the six most recent iterations.
The data collected were instrumental in measuring whether the Joint Fire Science Program regional fire exchanges were meeting their short-, medium-, and long-term goals. Further, the data were gathered in the hopes that it would provide valuable insight into which arenas were being adequately covered by the regional fire exchanges and which arenas needed improvement. These surveys provided spaces for open-ended responses from participants, with the intention of better serving the constituents of fire exchanges across the country.
For more details about the Fire Science Exchange Network see: https://www.firescience.gov/JFSP_exchanges.cfm