Climate Change Literacy in Africa (code, shape-files and processed data sets)

This data set provides the supplemental code, data and shape-files for Simpson et al. 2021. Climate Change Literacy in Africa, Nature Climate Change.

Data set includes the following:

1. Code for cleaning and merging the Afrobarometer data, as well as to run the analyses.
2. Data set of national and sub-national climate change literacy rates for Africa.
3. Data set of gender differences of national climate change literacy rates for Africa.
4. Shape files presenting national and sub-national climate change literacy rates for Africa.
5. Code and computed output files for climate trends extracted from ERA-5 experienced by Afrobarometer survey respondents for:
1. the number of months per year in the past ten- and thirty-year periods in which temperature was above the 95th percentile (PPT),
2. Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI),
3. 3-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI),
4. the duration of the longest dry spell (Max CDD) of the year.

Original datasets analysed during the current study are available from:

1. the Afrobarometer repository, https://www.afrobarometer.org/data (all geolocation data has been removed from respondents in accordance with Afrobarometer data use protocols but can be accessed from the Afrobarometer).
2. The ERA5-Land monthly data from the Copernicus Climate Data Store, https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/home,
3. EM-DAT – the international disaster database https://www.emdat.be/.