Two-wave Post-Disaster Survey on Climate Change Attitudes: Texas after Hurricane Harvey and the 2021 North American Winter Storms

Overview

This repository contains data needed to reproduce the analysis results from Chen et al. 2024. "Disaster Experience Mitigates the Partisan Divide on Climate Change: Evidence from Texas," Global Environmental Change. It is a study about climate change attitudes and experience with climate disasters across U.S. partisan groups. For details about the data, please see the published paper. Results reproduction code is available at https://github.com/tedhchen/floodStorm.

Data Set Details

`texas_climate_attitudes.csv` contains data from two waves of surveys of Democrats and Republicans living in Texas, with the following groups of variables.

• climate change attitudes
• self-reported exposure to climate disasters
• scientific information treatment condition and checks
• political leaning
• sociodemographics and residential location
• survey administration details

`outage2021_data.RData` contains power outage data for counties and cities in Texas during Feb. 2020 and Feb. 2021.

`outage2021_data_multithreshold.RData` contains power outage data for counties and cities in Texas during Feb. 2020 and Feb. 2021, aggregated to the county level based on different thresholds of uncertainty about which cities people live in.

`gtrends_archive.RData` contains Google Trends data for "hurricane", "astros", and "power", in Texas between 2017 and 2021.

References

Please reference the original study when using this data set.

Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, Christopher J. Fariss, Hwayong Shin, Xu Xu. 2024. "Disaster Experience Mitigates the Partisan Divide on Climate Change: Evidence from Texas." Global Environmental Change. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102918.