Air pollution perception in ten countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Authors: Lou, Baowen , Barbieri, Diego , Passavanti, Marco , Hui, Cang , Gupta, Akshay , Hoff, Inge , Lessa, Daniela , Sikka, Gaurav , Chang, Kevin , Fang, Kevin , Lam, Louisa , Maharaj, Brij , Ghasemi, Navid , Qiao, Yaning , Adomako, Solomon , Foroutan Mirhosseini, Ali , Naik, Bhaven , Banerjee, Arunabha , Wang, Fusong , Tucker, Andrew , Liu, Zhuangzhuanga , Wijayaratna, Kasunt , Naseri, Sahra , Yu, Lei , Chen, Hao , Shu, Benan , Goswami, Shubham , Peprah, Prince , Hessami, Amir , Abbas, Montasir , Agarwal, Nithin
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Ambio Vol. 51, no. 3 (2022), p. 531-545
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- Description: As largely documented in the literature, the stark restrictions enforced worldwide in 2020 to curb the COVID-19 pandemic also curtailed the production of air pollutants to some extent. This study investigates the perception of the air pollution as assessed by individuals located in ten countries: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa and the USA. The perceptions towards air quality were evaluated by employing an online survey administered in May 2020. Participants (N = 9394) in the ten countries expressed their opinions according to a Likert-scale response. A reduction in pollutant concentration was clearly perceived, albeit to a different extent, by all populations. The survey participants located in India and Italy perceived the largest drop in the air pollution concentration; conversely, the smallest variation was perceived among Chinese and Norwegian respondents. Among all the demographic indicators considered, only gender proved to be statistically significant. © 2021, The Author(s).
Survey data regarding perceived air quality in Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa, United States before and during Covid-19 restrictions
- Authors: Barbieri, Diego , Lou, Baowen , Passavanti, Marco , Hui, Cang , Lessa, Daniela , Maharaj, Brij , Banerjee, Arunabha , Wang, Fusong , Chang, Kevin , Naik, Bhaven , Yu, Lei , Liu, Zhuangzhuang , Sikka, Gaurav , Tucker, Andrew , Mirhosseini, Ali , Naseri, Sahra , Qiao, Yaning , Gupta, Akshay , Abbas, Montasir , Fang, Kevin , Ghasemi, Navid , Peprah, Prince , Goswami, Shubham , Hessami, Amir , Agarwal, Nithin , Lam, Louisa , Adomako, Solomon
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Journal article , Data article
- Relation: Data in Brief Vol. 32, (2020)
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- Description: The dataset deals with the air quality perceived by citizens before and during the enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions in ten countries around the world: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa and the United States. An online survey conveniently translated into Chinese, English, Italian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese collected information regarding the perceived quality of air pollution according to a Likert scale. The questionnaire was distributed between 11-05-2020 and 31-05-2020 and 9 394 respondents took part. Both the survey and the dataset (stored in a Microsoft Excel Worksheet) are available in a public repository. The collected data offer the people's subjective perspectives related to the objective improvement in air quality occurred during the COVID-19 restrictions. Furthermore, the dataset can be used for research studies involving the reduction in air pollution as experienced, to a different extent, by populations of all the ten countries. © 2020 The Author(s)