The Relationship Between the Actual Level of Air Pollution and Residents' Concern about Air Pollution: Evidence from Shanghai, China.

ABSTRACT: This study explored the relationship between the actual level of air pollution and residents' concern about air pollution. The actual air pollution level was measured by the air quality index (AQI) reported by environmental monitoring stations, while residents' concern about air pollution was reflected by the Baidu index using the Internet search engine keywords "Shanghai air quality". On the basis of the daily data of 2068 days for the city of Shanghai in China over the period between 2 December 2013 and 31 July 2019, a vector autoregression (VAR) model was built for empirical analysis. Estimation results provided three interesting findings. (1) Local residents perceived the deprivation of air quality and expressed their concern on air pollution quickly, within the day on which the air qu

SUBMITTER: Dong D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6927008 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature