Description
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This report describes the results of an annual nationwide survey on severe weather in the United States. The 2023 Severe Weather and Society Survey (WX) was designed and administered by the Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (IPPRA) at the University of Oklahoma. It is the sixth survey in the annual series (see Silva et al. 2017, Silva et al. 2018, Silva et al. 2019, Krocak et al. 2020, Krocak et al. 2021, and Bitterman et al. 2022 for information on WX17, WX18, WX19, WX20, WX21 and WX22, respectively). WX23 was fielded July 28 – August 25, 2023, using an online questionnaire that was completed by 1,513 U.S. adults (age 18+) that were recruited from an Internet panel that matches the characteristics of the U.S. population as estimated in the U.S. Census. Following WX17 and WX18, which were designed to establish baseline measures of the extent to which U.S. adults receive, understand, and respond to severe weather forecasts and warnings, WX19, WX20, WX21 and WX22 were designed to continue and, in some cases, refine the measurement of these concepts. WX23 continues to measure these core concepts, giving us seven years of consistent data to continue measuring change. Additionally, WX23 tested different methods for visualizing conditional intensity in Storm Prediction Center products, as well as a variety of experimental scales for the SPC’s convective outlook. The survey also includes questions on how religious beliefs impact willingness to take protective action in the event of a severe storm. This report presents an overview of methodology of the survey data collection, data weighting, and a reproduction of the survey instrument with weighted means and frequencies for the questions that elicited numeric responses.
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