15,984 rated or chosen profiles from 444 respondents, in up to 12 tasks of 3 profiles varying on 4 attributes.

About this table

Description	Discrete choice experiment on supporting the Eswatini reed dance: 444 households in Eswatini chose among the status quo and two programmes described by wetland conservation, informal education hours, tourist numbers and an annual household payment (three payment-vehicle split samples); 12 cards each, choice, no opt-out.
Reference	Mahlalela, L. S. (2024). Stakeholder preferences for ecosystem services provided by wetlands in Eswatini [Doctoral thesis, University of Pretoria]. Data: Mahlalela, L., Jourdain, D., Mungatana, E., & Hedemark Lundhede, T. (2024). Q-methodology and stated preferences data of stakeholder preferences for ecosystem services. University of Pretoria.
Licence	CC BY 4.0
Source data	https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.25187747.v1

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint_2). Choice among three unlabelled alternatives, a status quo (3% of wetlands conserved, 12 hours of education, 2500 tourists, E0) and two programmes, described by wetland conservation, informal education, tourist presence and annual household payment; the status quo shows displayed levels so it is a profile and there is no opt-out. Fixed design of 12 cards shown to everyone (task = card number in the design, display order not documented); three payment-vehicle split samples (tax, contributions, subsidy) in trial_payment_vehicle. Level text from the PhD thesis (Table 3.1 and card); deposit ID is not unique so respondents are re-keyed 1..444.

These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.

Size and shape

Respondents	444
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	15,984
Tasks per respondent (most)	12
Profiles per task	3
Attributes	4
Tasks with no profile chosen	0

Design

Topic	climate energy environment
A profile represents	policy
Country	SZ
Language shown	unknown
Language of stored levels	en
Randomization restrictions	unknown
Task order	inferred from row order
Profile position	recorded in the deposit

Task order or profile position was rebuilt from row order; analyses of position or task order should leave it out.

Outcomes:

choice	For each choice card, we kindly ask you to choose the option you prefer given the amount indicated for the changes in the alternatives. You can only choose one option in each choice card [choice, forced]

Columns

attr_annual_household_taxattr_informal_educationattr_tourist_presenceattr_wetland_conservationchoiceidprofiletasktrial_payment_vehicle

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

Get the data

Download CSVno account needed Browse on Redivisexplore and query Croissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("mahlalela_2024_reed_dance_wetlands", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("mahlalela_2024_reed_dance_wetlands", source="conj")

How to cite

@misc{https://doi.org/10.25403/upresearchdata.25187747.v1,
  doi = {10.25403/UPRESEARCHDATA.25187747.V1},
  url = {https://researchdata.up.ac.za/articles/dataset/Q-methodology_and_stated_preferences_data_of_stakeholder_preferences_for_ecosystem_services/25187747/1},
  author = {Mahlalela, Linda and Jourdain, Damien and Mungatana, Eric and Hedemark Lundhede, Thomas},
  keywords = {Conservation and biodiversity, Natural resource management, Environment and resource economics, Welfare economics},
  title = {Q-methodology and stated preferences data of stakeholder preferences for ecosystem services},
  publisher = {University of Pretoria},
  year = {2024},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}

Version and provenance

IRW version	v584
Redivis dataset	irw_conjoint_2 v1.4
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/hk97-wv30
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v1.4
Metadata source	irw_meta v44.0