Satsunai River CV Survey
Overview
The primary purpose of the survey is to estimate willingness to pay by the Japanese people for preserving the pristine streams and natural ecosystem of the Satsunai River located in northern Japan. Another survey purpose is to empirically compare the responses to various types of proposed questionnaire formats of contingent valuation. Please see the following map for the location of the river.
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The survey was conducted in four locations in Japan. Households in each location were randomly chosen from official lists of local residents called as “Jumin Kihon Daicho” and then subjected to either face to face interviews or mail surveys.
The survey was jointly conducted by Hokkaido Development Bureau,
Research Institute for Community Policy Co., Ltd.
and Prof. Noboru Hidano’s laboratory at Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Summary of survey design and samples
- Satsunai area survey
- Month and year: Feb 1998
- Survey locations: Townships along The Satsunai River
- Environmental goods valued:
Satsunai River preservation and rainforest preservation in Borneo
- Survey methods:
The Satsunai River preservation question was created into three versions
using one of the three elicitation formats; double-bounded dichotomous choice
(DBDC), payment card, and open-ended question.
The payment vehicle used is donation.
Respondents were randomly subjected to one of the three elicitation formats.
The rainforest question used an open-ended format in conjunction with
a donation payment vehicle.
- Sample sizes:
- Face to face interviews: 691
- Mail survey (elicitation format is either DBDC or open-ended question): 535
- Distant location survey
- Month and year: Dec 1998 to Feb 1999
- Survey locations:
- Environmental goods valued:
Satsunai River preservation and climate policy by the Japanese government
- Survey methods:
The Satsunai River preservation question employed a DBDC format.
It used either taxation or donation as a payment vehicle.
Respondents were randomly subjected to either of the payment vehicles.
The climate policy question employed a payment card format and
its payment vehicle was taxation only.
- Sample sizes:
- Sapporo
- Face to face interviews: 754
- Mail survey: 914
- Ohta
- Face to face interviews: 700
- Mail survey: 656
- Hidaka
- Face to face interviews: 700
- Mail survey: 716
Questionnaires for Sapporo, Ohta, Hidaka surveys
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