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Description
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This report describes the results of a nationwide survey of Spanish speakers on tropical cyclones in the United States. The 2023 Tropical Cyclone Spanish Survey (TCS23) was designed and administered by the Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (IPPRA) at the University of Oklahoma. While it is the first time the survey has been translated into Spanish, an English-language version of the survey has been fielded annually for the last four years (see Ripberger et al. 2020, Krocak et al. 2021, Bitterman et al. 2022, and Bitterman et al. 2023 for more information on the 2020 Tropical Cyclone Survey (TC20), TC21, TC22, and TC23 surveys, respectively). TCS23 was fielded June 22 – July 7, 2023, using an online questionnaire that was completed by 402 U.S. adults (age 18+) who self-reported that they speak Spanish at least “well” and were recruited from an Internet panel that matches the characteristics of the U.S. Spanish speaking population as estimated in the U.S. Census. The TC20 survey, was designed to establish baseline measures of the extent to which U.S. adults receive, understand, and respond to tropical cyclone forecasts and warnings as well as trust in the National Weather Service (NWS), extreme weather and climate risk perceptions, risk literacy, interpretations of probabilistic language, and weather preparedness. The TC21 survey refined these measures and included a few questions about information preferences along the event timeline. The latest iteration of the survey, TC22, continued to track these base measures, while adding questions that test experiments related to the level of trust the public places in broadcast meteorologists and public perceptions of flood and storm surge products. Finally, the TC23 survey maintained these baseline questions while adding experiments related to equity in storm recovery and probabilistic communication. This survey, TCS23, is the first Spanish-language iteration of the survey and most closely resembled TC20 in order to establish a baseline of how adult Spanish speakers receive, understand, and respond to tropical cyclones and weather warnings. This report briefly describes the methodology, survey data collection, data weighting, and a reproduction of the survey instrument with weighted means and frequencies for the questions that elicited numeric responses. NOAA’s Weather Program Office provided funding for this survey.
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