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

Diego Maria Barbieri¹, Baowen Lou², Marco Passavanti³, Cang Hui⁴, Daniela Antunes Lessa⁵, Brij Maharaj⁶, Arunabha Banerjee⁷, Fusong Wang⁸, Kevin Chang⁹, Bhaven Naik¹⁰, Lei Yu¹¹, Zhuangzhuang Liu¹², Gaurav Sikka¹³, Andrew Tucker¹⁴, Ali Foroutan Mirhosseini¹, Sahra Naseri¹⁵, Yaning Qiao¹⁶, Akshay Gupta¹⁷, Montasir Abbas¹⁸, Kevin Fang¹⁹, Navid Ghasemi²⁰, Prince Peprah²¹, Shubham Goswami²², Amir Hessami²³, Nithin Agarwal²⁴, Louisa Lam²⁵, Solomon Adomako²⁶

Affiliations

¹ Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Høgskoleringen 7A, Trondheim, 7491, Trøndelag, Norway.
² Chang'an University, School of Highway, Nan Er Huan Road (Mid-section), Xi'an, 710064, Shaanxi, China.
³ Italian Society of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT-Italy), Guastalla St. 2, Carpi 4012, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
⁴ Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, 7602, South Africa.
⁵ Federal University of Ouro Preto, Department of Civil Engineering. Rua Nove, Bauxita, Ouro Preto, 35400-000, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
⁶ University of KwaZulu-Natal, Department of Geography. Howard College City, Durban, 4000, KwaZulu, South Africa.
⁷ Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Department of Civil Engineering. IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, 781039, Assam, India.
⁸ State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology. Luoshi road 122, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
⁹ University of Idaho, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. 875 Perimeter Drive, Mailstop 1022, Moscow, 83844, Idaho, United States.
¹⁰ Ohio University, Department of Civil Engineering/Russ College of Engineering & Technology. 28 W. Green Drive, Athens, 45701, Ohio, United States.
¹¹ Sun Yat-sen University, School of Civil Engineering. Xingang Xi Road 135, Guangzhou, 510275, Guangdong, China.
¹² Chang'an University, School of Highway. Nan Er Huan Road (Mid-section), Xi'an, 710064, Shaanxi, China.
¹³ Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Department of Geography. Darbhanga, 846004, Bihar, India.
¹⁴ University of Connecticut, Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center. 270 Middle Turnpike, Unit 5202 Longley Building, Storrs, 06269, Connecticut, United States.
¹⁵ Bam University of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine. Bam, 76615-336, Kerman, Iran.
¹⁶ China University of Mining and Technology, School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering. Daxue Road 1, Xuzhou, 22116, Jiangsu, China.
¹⁷ Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering Group, 321-A&B, Roorkee, 247667, Uttarakhand, India.
¹⁸ Virginia Tech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. 301-D3 Patton Hall, Blacksburg, 24061, Virginia, United States.
¹⁹ Sonoma State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Planning, 1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, 94928, California, United States.
²⁰ University of Bologna, Department of Civil Chemical Environmental and Materials Engineering. Viale del Risorgimento, 2, Bologna, 40136, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
²¹ University of New South Wales, Department of Social Policy Research Centre, John Goodsell Building, Kensington, Sydney, 2052, New South Wales, Australia.
²² Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Department of Civil Engineering, C V Raman Avenue, Bangalore, 560012, Karnataka, India.
²³ Texas A&M University - Kingsville, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, 917 W. Ave B, Kingsville, 78363, Texas, United States.
²⁴ University of Florida, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, 2100 NE Waldo Rd., Sta 106, Gainesville, 32609, Florida, United States.
²⁵ Federation University Australia, School of Nursing and Healthcare Professions, 72-100 Clyde Rd, Berwick, 3806, Victoria, Australia.
²⁶ University of Agder, Department of Engineering and Science, Jon Lilletuns vei 9, Grimstad, 4879, Agder, Norway.

PMID: 32835042
PMCID: PMC7425542
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106169

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

Diego Maria Barbieri et al. Data Brief. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct:32:106169.

doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106169. Epub 2020 Aug 13.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Høgskoleringen 7A, Trondheim, 7491, Trøndelag, Norway.
² Chang'an University, School of Highway, Nan Er Huan Road (Mid-section), Xi'an, 710064, Shaanxi, China.
³ Italian Society of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT-Italy), Guastalla St. 2, Carpi 4012, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
⁴ Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, 7602, South Africa.
⁵ Federal University of Ouro Preto, Department of Civil Engineering. Rua Nove, Bauxita, Ouro Preto, 35400-000, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
⁶ University of KwaZulu-Natal, Department of Geography. Howard College City, Durban, 4000, KwaZulu, South Africa.
⁷ Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Department of Civil Engineering. IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, 781039, Assam, India.
⁸ State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology. Luoshi road 122, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
⁹ University of Idaho, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. 875 Perimeter Drive, Mailstop 1022, Moscow, 83844, Idaho, United States.
¹⁰ Ohio University, Department of Civil Engineering/Russ College of Engineering & Technology. 28 W. Green Drive, Athens, 45701, Ohio, United States.
¹¹ Sun Yat-sen University, School of Civil Engineering. Xingang Xi Road 135, Guangzhou, 510275, Guangdong, China.
¹² Chang'an University, School of Highway. Nan Er Huan Road (Mid-section), Xi'an, 710064, Shaanxi, China.
¹³ Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Department of Geography. Darbhanga, 846004, Bihar, India.
¹⁴ University of Connecticut, Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center. 270 Middle Turnpike, Unit 5202 Longley Building, Storrs, 06269, Connecticut, United States.
¹⁵ Bam University of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine. Bam, 76615-336, Kerman, Iran.
¹⁶ China University of Mining and Technology, School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering. Daxue Road 1, Xuzhou, 22116, Jiangsu, China.
¹⁷ Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering Group, 321-A&B, Roorkee, 247667, Uttarakhand, India.
¹⁸ Virginia Tech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. 301-D3 Patton Hall, Blacksburg, 24061, Virginia, United States.
¹⁹ Sonoma State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Planning, 1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, 94928, California, United States.
²⁰ University of Bologna, Department of Civil Chemical Environmental and Materials Engineering. Viale del Risorgimento, 2, Bologna, 40136, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
²¹ University of New South Wales, Department of Social Policy Research Centre, John Goodsell Building, Kensington, Sydney, 2052, New South Wales, Australia.
²² Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Department of Civil Engineering, C V Raman Avenue, Bangalore, 560012, Karnataka, India.
²³ Texas A&M University - Kingsville, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, 917 W. Ave B, Kingsville, 78363, Texas, United States.
²⁴ University of Florida, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, 2100 NE Waldo Rd., Sta 106, Gainesville, 32609, Florida, United States.
²⁵ Federation University Australia, School of Nursing and Healthcare Professions, 72-100 Clyde Rd, Berwick, 3806, Victoria, Australia.
²⁶ University of Agder, Department of Engineering and Science, Jon Lilletuns vei 9, Grimstad, 4879, Agder, Norway.

PMID: 32835042
PMCID: PMC7425542
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106169

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.

Keywords: Air quality; COVID-19; Environmental pollution; Psychometric perception; Survey data.

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Conflict of interest statement

This research has not received any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

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Fig 1 — **Fig. 1**
Age and gender of the respondents for each country.

Fig 2 — **Fig. 2**
Education of the respondents for each country.

Fig 3 — **Fig. 3**
Perceived amount of air pollution before (a) and during (b) the COVID-19 restrictions as experienced by the survey respondents in each country.

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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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