Perceived safety and attractiveness of city streets in Frankfurt, Germany: ratings and explanations

How safe or attractive do different people perceive streets to be and why?

In this repository we share the data we collected and analysed for the paper "Is it safe to be attractive? Disentangling the influence of streetscape features on the perceived safety and attractiveness of city streets".

The data contain ratings of perceived safety and attractiveness (using a 5-point Likert scale) coming from 403 participants who were asked to virtually navigate city streets in Frankfurt, Germany, through a sequence of street-level images. Moreover it contains their explanations of the ratings (in their own words).

In total we have collected data for 753 locations. In particular:

• 7989 rating pairs of perceived safety and attractiveness
• 19114 keywords used to explain the safety ratings
• 18232 keywords used to explain the attractiveness ratings