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Survey data regarding perceived air quality in Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa, United States before and during Covid-19 restrictions.

ABSTRACT: The dataset deals with the air quality perceived by citizens before and during the enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions in ten countries around the world: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa and the United States. An online survey conveniently translated into Chinese, English, Italian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese collected information regarding the perceived quality of air pollution according to a Likert scale. The questionnaire was distributed between 11-05-2020 and 31-05-2020 and 9 394 respondents took part. Both the survey and the dataset (stored in a Microsoft Excel Worksheet) are available in a public repository. The collected data offer the people's subjective perspectives related to the objective improvement in air quality occurred during the COVID-19 restrictions. Furthermore, the dataset can be used for research studies involving the reduction in air pollution as experienced, to a different extent, by populations of all the ten countries.

SUBMITTER: Barbieri DM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7425542 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Survey data regarding perceived air quality in Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa, United States before and during Covid-19 restrictions.

Barbieri Diego Maria DM Lou Baowen B Passavanti Marco M Hui Cang C Lessa Daniela Antunes DA Maharaj Brij B Banerjee Arunabha A Wang Fusong F Chang Kevin K Naik Bhaven B Yu Lei L Liu Zhuangzhuang Z Sikka Gaurav G Tucker Andrew A Mirhosseini Ali Foroutan AF Naseri Sahra S Qiao Yaning Y Gupta Akshay A Abbas Montasir M Fang Kevin K Ghasemi Navid N Peprah Prince P Goswami Shubham S Hessami Amir A Agarwal Nithin N Lam Louisa L Adomako Solomon S

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The dataset deals with the air quality perceived by citizens before and during the enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions in ten countries around the world: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa and the United States. An online survey conveniently translated into Chinese, English, Italian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese collected information regarding the perceived quality of air pollution according to a Likert scale. The questionnaire was distributed between 11 ...[more]

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Survey data regarding perceived air quality in Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa, United States before and during Covid-19 restrictions.

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Survey data regarding perceived air quality in Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa, United States before and during Covid-19 restrictions.

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