TY - JOUR
T1 - Attitudes of food consumers at universities towards recycling human urine as crop fertiliser
T2 - A multinational survey dataset
AU - Barton, Melissa A.
AU - Simha, Prithvi
AU - Magri, Maria Elisa
AU - Dutta, Shanta
AU - Kabir, Humayun
AU - Selvakumar, Albert
AU - Zhou, Xiaoqin
AU - Lv, Yaping
AU - Martin, Tristan
AU - Kizos, Thanasis
AU - Triantafyllou, Efthimia
AU - Kataki, Rupam
AU - Gerchman, Yoram
AU - Herscu-Kluska, Ronit
AU - Alrousan, Dheaya
AU - Dalahmeh, Sahar
AU - Goh, Eng Giap
AU - Elenciuc, Daniela
AU - Głowacka, Aleksandra
AU - Korculanin, Laura
AU - Tzeng, Rongyu Veneta
AU - Ray, Saikat Sinha
AU - Ganesapillai, Mahesh
AU - Niwagaba, Charles
AU - Prouty, Christine
AU - Mihelcic, James R.
AU - Vinnerås, Björn
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s)
PY - 2021/4/1
Y1 - 2021/4/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Decentralized sanitation
KW - Environmental outlook
KW - New ecological paradigm
KW - Nutrient recovery
KW - Opinion survey
KW - Urine source separation
KW - Wastewater treatment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100693044&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106794
DO - 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106794
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100693044
SN - 2352-3409
VL - 35
JO - Data in Brief
JF - Data in Brief
M1 - 106794
ER -
