I want to measure societal impacts of my initiative…
...by assessing its impact on ecological behaviour
...by assessing its impact on ecological behaviour
Aggregate indicator title | Ecological Behavior |
Description | Patterns or trends of actions that positively or negatively impact the environment |
Domain | Society |
Qualitative/Quantitative | Quantitative |
Primary/Secondary data | Primary data |
Source of data | Participants |
Time series | Yes, ex ante and ex post |
Unit of measurement (observation) | Absolute values |
Unit of analysis | Project |
Analytical level (logic model) | Context, outcome, impact |
Links with indicators in other domains | N/A |
Data collection method(s) | Questionnaire shared with participants in CS projects |
Data collection item(s) | A questionnaire with scaled answers [range of 1 (never) to 5 (very often)], and Yes/No All items can be found here (Kaiser, 2020) - too elaborate to add here: https://psycharchives.org/handle/20.500.12034/3068 |
Indicator building | Unidimensional measure of general environmental behaviour (with assessment of a range of actions) Statements are answered with the frequency with which participants engage in the behaviour: ‘never’, ‘seldom’, ‘occasionally’, ‘often’, ‘very often’, or ‘NA’. Several of the statements are reverse coded. In analysis, ‘never’, ‘seldom’, and ‘occasionally’ should be combined as indicators of environmentally unfriendly behaviours. ‘Often’ and ‘always’ should then be combined to indicate pro-environmental behaviours |
Availability of data | Low |
Feasibility | Moderately resource demanding |
Comments/caveats | Pro-environmental attitude is measured by a 12 scale approach. Each scale reflects a different dimension of environmental attitudes. Data collection is done using a questionnaire consisting of several questions per scale. The questionnaire can be shared with participants either online or physically. |
Source of indicator definition | Kaiser (2020) |