Guidelines for reporting core information from community noise reaction survey: community response to noise team of icben
FIELDS ; VALLET
Type de document
ARTICLE A COMITE DE LECTURE NON REPERTORIE DANS BDI (ACLN)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
FIELDS ; VALLET
Résumé / Abstract
This article concerns studies of residents' reactions to environmental noise in their communities. Although these studies differ from one another in many respects, there has been a remarkable similarity in some core features of their designs. Residents are interviewed about their reactions to a specified noise source at their residences using fixed-format questionnaires. The exposure at their residences from the specified noise source are measured or estimated using a variety of closely-related noise indices. The analysis is centered on understanding how residents' reactions to the specified noise, as reported through the questionnaire, are related to the estimated acoustical noise environment and to a range of personal and social characteristics. As in other disciplines, however, the results from these surveys are often difficult to compare.
