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In 2023 we launched our World Risk Poll data explorer in an attempt to make our already open data more accessible to those lacking the resources required to work with large and complex datasets.
With the release of our first World Risk Poll 2024 report, ‘Resilience in a changing world’ we are also pleased to share a significantly updated and improved version of the data explorer.
The World Risk Poll dataset is composed of over 21 million datapoints.
The first improvement is to pull all of the data from each World Risk Poll release into a single page. Rather than having questions spread out across multiple pages it is now possible to view everything in one place.
To start you simply pick the question of interest using the first dropdown. Then chose how you would like to see that question broken down, by geography, demographic grouping, or even against other relevant questions from the Poll. Finally, a panel of filters can be applied to really drill down into the data and find the story that interests you.
Once you’ve found the data that interests you there are multiple ways to share. Feel free to screengrab from the explorer (although please do provide attribution). If you would like to style or use the data in your own way, simply right clicking on the graph will export the data for you to a .csv file or to Google Sheets.
If you are signed into a Google account while using the explorer you can also use the ‘Share – Get report link’ function in the top right of the page to share your exact view with other users. For example, this link shows how feelings of agency in the face of disaster change across World Bank Country Income groupings.
Column charts are a great way of sharing large amounts of data in an easy to understand way. However, sometimes you may want to visualise and compare the data in different ways. On the second page of the explorer you can see the Resilience Index and many other questions as a map view. Allowing for regional comparisons is a powerful way of seeing global and regional differences in the data. The table in the bottom right provides a tabular view of this data and can be sorted by any of the columns, allowing you to see exactly how countries score relative to each other. It is also possible to drill down into the data using the arrows and sliders in the table header.
Finding correlations between two questions can also identify areas of interest. In the second chart on this page you can change the metrics for both the x and y axes of a scatter plot. Coloured by World Bank Country Income groupings, it is possible to see clear divides, as well as interesting outlier countries.
Certain questions within the World Risk Poll are asked repeatedly in multiple Poll years. Where available, the data for these questions is presented in the ‘Trended Items’ section. Filtering these charts can identify changes in people's perceptions and experiences of risk and harm - for example, the dramatic changes in feelings of agency and trust seen in Morocco between 2021 and 2023, which are discussed further in our ‘Resilience in a changing world’ report.
The improvements described above have been partly stimulated by feedback received from users. If you have any questions, suggestions, or simply want to tell us about how you use the data or the explorer, please get in touch.
Aaron Gardner announces the release of our new World Risk Poll Data Explorer, an easy and intuitive tool for navigating data on people’s experiences and perceptions of risk featured in our four major 2021 Poll reports.
Lloyd’s Register Foundation is inviting proposals for impactful research and interventions that will increase the utility and influence of data generated by the 2021 World Risk Poll Findings around global perceptions and experiences of risk in the Covid age.
The Lloyd’s Register Foundation is making further funding available on an ongoing basis for organisations who can use World Risk Poll data for research and practical interventions to improve safety.
