Summary information

Study title

British National Railway Noise Survey, 1975

Creator

Walker, J. G., University of Southampton, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research

Fields, J. M., University of Southampton, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research

Study number / PID

1400 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-1400-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

To provide information about reactions to railway noise by: describing the relationship between railway noise levels and annoyance, identifying other personal and community characteristics contributing to railway noise annoyance, identifying characteristics of railways affecting noise annoyance, and comparing the impact of railway noise with that from other noise sources.
Main Topics:

Variables
Three types of data were collected: social survey interview data, railway noise data, and neighbourhood observation data. Interview data included measures of annoyance with railway noise, attitudes towards other aspects of railways, attitudes towards noise generally, and demographic characteristics.
In order to conduct certain methodological studies, two forms of the questionnaire were asked with slightly different orders for the presentation of the questions.

Environment and conservation

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Data collection period

01/10/1975 - 01/02/1976

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals

Noise levels

National

Adults

Noise

Universe

People of at least age eighteen living above an estimated 65 decibel (a-weighted) peak noise level contour of a railway route in Great Britain which was estimated to have more than twenty trains a day

Sampling procedure

Unequal probability, stratifed (2 strata) clustered multi-stage area sample in which the 75 primary sampling units were systematically selected from a highly ordered list, and single individuals randomly selected from each of 2010 dwelling units located in 403 compact segments

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Observation

Noise measurement

Grant number

B/RG/3777.3

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1985

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Walker, J. and Field, J. (1980) Reactions to railway noise: a survey near railway lines in Great Britain [Research report], (ISVR Technical Report), : ISVR.
Fields, J. (1979) 'Railway noise and vibration annoyance in residential areas', Journal of Sound and Vibration, 445-458
Kalton, G. and Stowell, R. (1979) 'A study of coder variability', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 276-289