pavic_2022_science_literacy

8,655 responses from 577 respondents to 15 items.

About this table

DescriptionScience literacy scale (Oxford/Eurobarometer-derived), 15 items, binary correct/incorrect
ReferencePavic, Z., & Suljok, A. (2022). Vaccination conspiracy beliefs among social science & humanities and STEM educated people—An analysis of the mediation paths. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264722
DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0264722
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264722

Size and shape

Responses8,655
Respondents577
Items15
Response categories2
Responses per respondent15
Responses per item577
Density1
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeAdult (18+)
sampleInternet-based
measurement toolTest
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)hrv

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentOxford scale of science literacy (Durant, Evans & Thomas, 1989; Miller, 1998) - 15 items
Mean words per item9.933
Mean characters per item53.400
Mean characters per response16
Flesch-Kincaid grade level6.010

Columns

cov_agecov_genderiditemresp

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python:

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("pavic_2022_science_literacy")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("pavic_2022_science_literacy")

Version and provenance

IRW versionv393
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_3 v7.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/pqqn-pm43
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv7.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v23.0