DOI: 10.15125/bath-01124
title: Dataset for "Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey"

description: The dataset is of 10,000 participants, aged 16–25 years and is fully anonymised. It includes data from 1,000 people in each of 10 countries: Australia, Brazil, Finland, France, India, Nigeria, Philippines, Portugal, the UK, and the USA. Quota sampling was used, based on age, gender, and region. Because quota sampling did not lead to complete representativeness by country, collected data were weighted based on statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for each country by age group, gender, and region.  The survey completed includes questions about climate anxiety – worry, impaired functioning, emotions, thoughts, and experiences of being dismissed or ignored. There are also responses relating to thoughts and emotions about government inaction on climate change. 

The dataset is stored in the format used by statistical programme SPSS.
description: Young people aged 16–25 were recruited via the professional online participant recruitment platform Kantar. The Kantar Profiles Network provides automated access to first-party data compliantly, with speed and at scale, with over 100 million research-ready respondents across the world.

This survey gathered samples of 16–25 year-olds, from countries across the world, as such it is aiming to recruit 1000 participants from 10 different countries (10,000) from the Global North and Global South. These countries were: UK, Finland, France, Brazil, Portugal, US, India, Australia, Nigeria, Philippines.

The poll and information was translated into the relevant languages by translators working within the funding organisation (Avaaz). 

Participants had to be aged 16–25, be a participant of Kantar polling company (which indicates that they have already provided full, informed consent to take part in any polls distributed by Kantar). Kantar targeted the recruitment so that only people meeting this criteria will be invited and able to take part. 

Informed consent was already been gained by Kantar. Participants are already signed up with Kantar and have already agreed to take part in all surveys shared by Kantar. As part of this, all participants had already agreed to a data privacy contract with “Kantar Profiles” using their guidelines. According to GDPR, appropriate data protection measures are in place, and all participants had already consented to take part in surveys distributed by Kantar. Their comprehensive privacy policy is here: https://www.lifepointspanel.com/privacy. As such, no additional  ‘consent process’ was required within the poll. 

Please note, all data provided from Kantar to the University of Bath was fully anonymous and there was be no risk of identification of participants at any point.
description: No changes were made to the dataset provided by Kantar prior to analysis. Kantar used quota sampling, based on age, gender, and region. Because quota sampling did not lead to complete representativeness by country, collected data were weighted based on statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for each country by age group, gender, and region. This weighting was done by Kantar prior to receiving the dataset, and this weighted data was reported in publications from this study.
description: Data was analysed in SPSS as provided here.
description: Data is organised and encoded in line with the ordering of the survey as identified in the supplementary material of the published paper. The coding is documented in the 'Variables' page of the SPSS document.
description: Further relevant documentation may be found in the following resources.

   Hickman, C., Marks, E., Pihkala, P., Clayton, S., Lewandowski, R. E., Mayall, E. E., Wray, B., Mellor, C., and van Susteren, L.,  2021.   Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey.    The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(12), e863-e873.  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/s2542-5196(21)00278-3.