Identification

Title

UK Biodiversity Indicator A1, Awareness, understanding and support for conservation

Abstract

This spreadsheet is the underlying data for the biodiversity indicator A1, Awareness, understanding and support for conservation. The indicator addresses awareness of biodiversity and understanding of its value, concern about biodiversity loss, as well as support for performing actions that can help to conserve it. It uses a hierarchical system to group people in the UK according to the extent to which they are aware of the threat to biodiversity in the UK, their level of concern about the loss of biodiversity and the number and type of actions they take to support and protect it. People who are highly engaged say that they are aware of the threat to biodiversity in the UK, they are concerned about the loss of biodiversity and they undertake actions that help to support and protect biodiversity. In 2014, 6 per cent of people surveyed were highly engaged. At the other end of the scale, 52 per cent of people surveyed said they were not aware of a threat to biodiversity in the UK. Data for this indicator comes from questions on awareness of, concern for, and actions taken, to prevent biodiversity loss. These questions have been inserted into surveys running in the four countries of the United Kingdom. This is one of a suite of 24 UK biodiversity indicators published by JNCC on behalf of Defra; the latest publication date was 19 January 2016 - for indicator A1 the latest data are for 2014. The supporting technical document details the methodology used to create the indicator.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-6069

name: page-6069

Unique resource identifier

code

cb2b268e-316c-4e1a-8a50-f6d3c75fea0e

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-6069 Data set supported by a Word document (A1 - Awareness, understanding and support for conservation.docx) containing all of the website text, a jpeg image (UKBI2015_A1i_FinalV2.jpg), and a technical document (UKBI2015_TechBG_A1_Final.doc) detailing the methodology used to create the indicator.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Terrestrial

UK Biodiversity

Evidence

Biodiversity

awareness

indicator

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.65

East bounding longitude

2.0

North bounding latitude

61.0

South bounding latitude

49.77

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014

End position

2014

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-19

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Source: Department of the Environment Northern Ireland, Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, Scottish Natural Heritage.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Microsoft Excel for Windows

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement "Contains public sector information from the Department of the Environment Northern Ireland, Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, and Scottish Natural Heritage, licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0"

Limitations on public access

No limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-05-17

Metadata language