{"id":1658,"date":"2024-08-02T18:52:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/caplter\/?post_type=project&p=1658"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:01:49","slug":"phoenix-area-social-survey","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/caplter\/?project=phoenix-area-social-survey","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Area Social Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Phoenix Area Social Survey parallels the Ecological Survey of Central Arizona and Survey 200 as a major component of CAP\u2019s long-term monitoring program.  Every five years, the PASS research team surveys households in selected neighborhoods in the metropolitan Phoenix area to better understand local perceptions, values and behaviors on several key environmental issues, including water conservation, urban growth, air pollution, land conservation, biodiversity and urban climate change, as well as perceptions about neighborhood characteristics and attributes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The neighborhoods included in the PASS are located near ecological monitoring sites to enable researchers to link social and biophysical data in analyses. For example, bird point counts and vegetation composition surveys in the PASS neighborhoods allow researchers to link these data to PASS survey responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2001 pilot survey was conducted in eight neighborhoods in Phoenix with 302 respondents. This survey focused on understanding perceptions of environmental issues in the Phoenix area, neighborhood amenities and disamenities, social capital and front and backyard landscaping preferences. Results are outlined in a report titled \u201cThe Phoenix Area Social Survey: Community and Environment in a Desert Metropolis<\/a>\u201d, as well as Kirby et al. 2006, Larsen and Harlan 2006 and Larsen et al. 2004 listed below. The PASS 2001 Codebook<\/a> includes the pilot survey instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2006 survey encompassed 40 neighborhoods and 800 households and introduced new questions into the survey on support for environmental policies, trust in public institutions, health effects of the urban heat island and environmental concerns. These survey results are summarized in \u201c2006 Highlights: Phoenix Area Social Survey Community and Environment in a Desert Metropolis<\/a>\u201d and formed the basis for several peer-reviewed publications. The PASS 2006 Codebook<\/a> describes the full survey methodology and includes the survey instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2011, the PASS research team added five new neighborhoods to the survey to incorporate areas co-located with other CAP research endeavors and to expand the sample of low-income neighborhoods. The survey continued its focus on environmental perceptions and concern, place attachment, neighborhood amenities and disamenities, support for environmental policies and the urban heat island but added questions relevant to the housing crisis and recession and access to healthy food in the city. The PASS 2011 Codebook<\/a> includes the survey instrument and a description of methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2017 PASS was redesigned to focus on 12 neighborhoods co-located with respect to a wide variety of CAP monitoring sites including Ecological Survey of Central Arizona sites, the Salt River, Tempe Town Lake, Indian Bend Wash, urban mountain parks and South Phoenix. This change was made to increase the number of respondents to at least 35 in each neighborhood to allow for geographic comparisons across diverse local contexts. This redesign has also allowed the PASS research team to conduct integrated social-ecological analysis in the study neighborhoods. The 2017 PASS continued to explore themes common to previous surveys, including but not limited to landscape choices and land management practices; environmental risks and their mitigation and personal satisfaction with local neighborhood conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the summer of 2021, Professor Kelli Larson led the fifth version of the PASS using the same sampling design as in 2017. The same themes were the focus of the latest survey, though attention increased to human-wildlife interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, contact: Kelli.Larson@asu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Key personnel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n