Environmental Quality Survey

• Environmental Quality Survey - primary data - based off our opinions so statistics may vary from person to person
• Environmental Quality Survey - methodology

  • chose 3 locations, scored them individually
  • rated the area 0-5 using a range of criteria, 0 = poor, 5 = great.
  • criteria examples: vandalism, litter, design, traffic noise, safety etc.
• Environmental Quality Survey - advantages

  • turns descriptions (qualitative data) into numbers (quantitative data)
  • quick
• Environmental Quality Survey - disadvantages

  • personal opinion, there will be different scores for the same area
• Environmental Quality Survey can be represented through a Rose Diagram
• Advantages of using a Rose Diagram to represent the Environmental Quality Survey

  • visual
  • easy to compare
  • higher score = the further away the point is from the centre
• Disadvantages of using a Rose Diagram to represent the Environmental Quality Survey

  • unusual presentation
  • graph = may be difficult to interpret
• Future improvements for using a Rose Diagram to represent the Environmental Quality Survey

  • multiple peoples' data on a graph to overcome bias
  • 3 sites on one graph to compare the entirety of Castleton easily