CAFOR Land Owner Engagement, Understanding, Risk and Management Structural Equation Model, Mail Survey 2012

These data and the R script provided recreate the analyses and results presented in Stevens (2015). The data were collected from forest land owners in Wallowa, Union, and Baker Counties, Oregon. Forest landowners were defined as those owning ten or more acres of forest land located within a single tax lot. Landowners were identified using a forest-non-forest classification aggregated to publicly available tax lot data from each of the three counties. The University of New Hampshire Survey Center mailed 2133 questionnaires to forest landowners (those who owned 10 acres or more forest land on a single parcel of their land), of which 454 (22%) were completed and returned. No follow-up of non-respondents occurred.

本数据集与配套提供的R脚本可完整复现Stevens(2015)中呈现的全部分析过程与研究结果。本数据集的调研样本取自美国俄勒冈州沃洛瓦县（Wallowa County）、联合县（Union County）与贝克县（Baker County）的林地所有者群体。本次研究对林地所有者的定义为：在单个计税地块上拥有10英亩及以上林地的土地产权人。研究人员通过将森林-非森林分类结果聚合至三个县公开可用的计税地块数据，完成了目标林地所有者的筛选工作。新罕布什尔大学调研中心（University of New Hampshire Survey Center）向符合前述定义的林地所有者共邮寄2133份调查问卷，最终回收完成并返回的有效问卷共454份，回收率为22%。本次研究未对未回复问卷的群体进行后续跟进。