RT Journal Article
T1 Recycled water acceptance: Data from two Spanish regions with opposite levels of scarcity
A1 Vila Tojo, Sergio
A1 Sabucedo Cameselle, José Manuel
A1 Andrade Fernández, Elena
A1 Gómez Román, Cristina
A1 Alzate García, Mónica
A1 Seoane Pesqueira, Gloria
K1 Wastewater reuse acceptance
K1 Threat perception
K1 Attribution of responsibility
K1 Identity
K1 Moral obligation
K1 Trust in scientists
K1 Health risk perception
K1 Cost-benefit perception
AB The dataset presented in this paper were collected for testing a perceptive-axiological model of recycled water acceptance for low and high contact uses. Participants were selected by proportional random sampling by sex and age the two Spanish communities with the most extreme values of water stress (Galicia, the rainiest region and Murcia, the driest). Data were collected by a company specialized in market research using an online survey housed on Qualtrics. Participants who matched the specified profile were contacted by email. The company compensated them financially. The final sample size consisted of 726 valid responses. The survey collected data on a variety of variables related to three conceptual dimensions: the diagnosis of the environmental situation, the axiological influence and the public perceptions regarding recycled water. The survey also collected demographic data from respondents. The survey was designed and reviewed by four experts in social psychology and two experts in methodology. The dataset featured in this article provides the raw survey data plus sociodemographic distribution, survey items, and other statistical data. This is the first and most comprehensive set of comparative data known to the authors on public acceptance of water reuse for high and low contact uses comparing regions with and without water scarcity. The authors have published an open access paper based on this data set, which are linked to this paper. Water industry professionals, policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders aiming to implement wastewater reuse systems in society may be interested in using the data as a point of comparison for their own study on public acceptance of water reuse or examining the data for relationships not yet explored in the literature
PB Elsevier
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29143
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29143
LA eng
NO Data in Brief 43 (2022) 108402
NO This research has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (No. 730285) and from the Galician Department of Education, University, and Professional Training (grant number ED431B 2019/07). The authors belong to the Galician Competitive Research Group COSOYPA (GPC2019 GI-1456), and to the Cross-Disciplinary Research Center in Environmental Technologies (CRETUS) (AGRUP2015/02). These programmes are supported by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union (ERDF)
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026