Barton Melissa A, Simha Prithvi, Magri Maria Elisa, Dutta Shanta, Kabir Humayun, Selvakumar Albert, Zhou Xiaoqin, Lv Yaping, Martin Tristan, Kizos Thanasis, Triantafyllou Efthimia, Kataki Rupam, Gerchman Yoram, Herscu-Kluska Ronit, Alrousan Dheaya, Dalahmeh Sahar, Goh Eng Giap, Elenciuc Daniela, Głowacka Aleksandra, Korculanin Laura, Tzeng Rongyu Veneta, Ray Saikat Sinha, Ganesapillai Mahesh, Niwagaba Charles, Prouty Christine, Mihelcic James R, Vinnerås Björn
Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7032, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden.
Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
Data Brief. 2021 Jan 26;35:106794. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106794. eCollection 2021 Apr.
We present here a data set generated from a multinational survey on opinions of university community members on the prospect of consuming food grown with human urine as fertiliser and about their urine recycling perceptions in general. The data set comprises answers from 3,763 university community members (students, faculty/researchers, and staff) from 20 universities in 16 countries and includes demographic variables (age bracket, gender, type of settlement of origin, academic discipline, and role in the university). Questions were designed based on Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour to elicit information about three components of behavioural intention-attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control. Survey questions covered perceived risks and benefits (attitudes), perceptions of colleagues (injunctive social norm) and willingness to consume food grown with cow urine/faeces (descriptive social norm), and willingness to pay a price premium for food grown with human urine as fertiliser (perceived behavioural control). We also included a question about acceptable urine recycling and disposal options and assessed general environmental outlook via the 15-item revised New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale. Data were collected through a standardised survey instrument translated into the relevant languages and then administered via an online form. Invitations to the survey were sent by email to university mailing lists or to a systematic sample of the university directory. Only a few studies on attitudes towards using human urine as fertiliser have been conducted previously. The data described here, which we analysed in "Willingness among food consumers at universities to recycle human urine as crop fertiliser: Evidence from a multinational survey" [1], may be used to further understand potential barriers to acceptance of new sanitation systems based on wastewater source separation and urine recycling and can help inform the design of future sociological studies.
我们在此展示一个数据集，该数据集来自一项跨国调查，调查对象是大学社区成员对食用用人尿作为肥料种植的食物的看法以及他们对尿液回收的总体认知。该数据集包含来自16个国家20所大学的3763名大学社区成员（学生、教师/研究人员和工作人员）的回答，并包括人口统计学变量（年龄组、性别、原籍居住地类型、学术学科以及在大学中的角色）。问题是根据阿詹的计划行为理论设计的，以获取有关行为意图的三个组成部分——态度、主观规范和感知行为控制的信息。调查问题涵盖了感知到的风险和益处（态度）、对同事的看法（指令性社会规范）以及食用用牛粪/尿种植的食物的意愿（描述性社会规范），还有愿意为用人尿作为肥料种植的食物支付价格溢价（感知行为控制）。我们还纳入了一个关于可接受的尿液回收和处理选项的问题，并通过15项修订后的新生态范式（NEP）量表评估总体环境观念。数据通过翻译成相关语言的标准化调查工具收集，然后通过在线表格进行管理。调查邀请通过电子邮件发送到大学邮件列表或大学名录的系统样本。此前仅有少数关于使用人尿作为肥料的态度的研究。我们在《大学食物消费者将人尿回收用作作物肥料的意愿：来自一项跨国调查的证据》[1]中分析的此处所述数据，可用于进一步了解基于废水源分离和尿液回收的新卫生系统接受度的潜在障碍，并有助于为未来社会学研究的设计提供信息。
