This project is to examine households’ earthquake risk perceptions and their immediate response following the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake and the 2011 Tohoku Japan earthquake. The measures include environmental and social context, building structure, earthquake, and tsunami risk perception, behavioral response (during and after), emotional response, risk information channel, previous earthquake experience, earthquake damage, and demographic data.
There are 32 questions in the questionnaire. These questions generate 83 variables. There are 29 categorical variables, 46 binary variables, 6 continuous variables, and 2 open-ended questions.
Mission | Household Mail Survey
Cite This Data:
Wu, T., S. Huang, M. Lindell (2020). "Household Mail Survey", in 2011 New Zealand and Japan Earthquake Household Response Survey. DesignSafe-CI. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-st68-6b42
The household sample was randomly drawn from the two cities of Christchurch, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan. From September 2011 to April 2012, the Texas A&M University (USA), Massey University/GNS Science (New Zealand), and Kansai University (Japan) collaboratively conducted mail surveys to 600 households in each city. Following Dillman’s (2000) Tailored Design Method, each household was sent an initial questionnaire and non-respondents were sent a reminder postcard and as many as two replacement questionnaires. This process was terminated when non-respondents had been sent as many as one reminder postcard and three questionnaire packets. There were 257 usable questionnaires from Christchurch for a response rate of 42.8%, and 332 usable questionnaires from Hitachi for a response rate of 55.3%.
Social Science Collection | New Zealand Data Collection
