READ ME File For 'PhD Objective 2 - Business Interview Data'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1207

ReadMe Author: Helen Davies, University of Southampton ORCID ID 0000-0001-6497-9455

This dataset supports the thesis entitled: Money doesn’t grow on trees: How to increase funding for the delivery of urban forest ecosystem services?
AWARDED BY: University of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: 2020

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA

This dataset contains: 
The statistical data arising from the questionnaire-based telephone interviews conducted with 30 business representatives from the Southampton area.
The excel dataset reveals how each business responded to the 27 closed questions put to them, e.g. yes/no, or other ordinal/categorical closed answers.
Please see the full questionnaire (Appendix C of the thesis) for further detail on the questions and possible answers.

Date of data collection: 10 November 2016 - 30 April 2017

Information about geographic location of data collection: Southampton and surrounding local authority areas

Related publication:
Business attitudes towards funding ecosystem services provided by urban forests, available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.07.006

Date that the file was created: January 2020