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Survey data linking coastal visit behaviours to socio-demographic and health profiles
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Hooyberg, A.; Roose, H.; Lonneville, B.; De Henauw, S.; Michels, N.; Everaert, G.; Flanders Marine Institute; Department of Sociology (Ugent); Department of Public Health and Primary Care (Ugent); Department of developmental, personality and social psychology (Ugent): Belgium; (2023): Survey data linking coastal visit behaviours to socio-demographic and health profiles. Marine Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.14284/625

Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
Dataset to explore the effects of spending time at the coast on mental and physical health. more

To accelerate the research about the effects of the coast on health, a dataset was compiled based on survey data from a sample (N = 1939) of the adult Flemish population about their visits to the Belgian coast. The survey queried the respondents’ number of day visits and/or longer stays per season in the previous year and the following characteristics of their visits: how often they performed specific activities, which of the 14 municipal seaside resorts they visited, who they were with, what they mentally and physically experienced, and what reasons they had for not visiting the coast more often. The respondents’ geo-demographic (including residential proximity to the coast), socio-economic, and health profile was also collected. We anticipate that investigations on the data will increase our understanding about the social structuring of coastal visits and give context to the effects of the coast on human health.

Scope
Themes:
Coastal studies (e.g. shores, estuaries)
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Coastal visits, Health profiles, Human health, Socio-demographic profiles, Surveys, Flanders, Coastal area

Geographical coverage
Flanders, Coastal area

Temporal coverage
2 January 2023 - 17 January 2023

Parameters
Frequency and characteristics of coastal visits
Health
Socio-demographic background

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata creatordata creator
Ghent University; Faculty of Political and Social Sciences; Department of Sociology, moredata creatordata creator
Ghent University; Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, moredata creatordata creator
Ghent University; Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences; Department of developmental, personality and social psychology, moredata creatordata creator

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Metadatarecord created: 2023-09-21
Information last updated: 2024-12-02
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