Demographic Predictors of Climate Opinion

About the Project

The aim of our project with the ENVENT Lab was to explore how demographic attributes are differentially predictive of climate opinion in different countries, continents, and time periods. To pursue this, our project consisted of two parts. In the first we cleaned and organized covariate data from 140+ surveys and merged the demographic information into existing data processing routines. Then we developed preliminary and exploratory predictive models to gain insights into our question of interest. We were ultimately able to set the foundation for further exploration of the data in the next iteration of the project as a result of completing the necessary proof of concepts; which we did by honing in on the demographic of gender as it relates to various climate opinion metrics through different methods of modeling.