Noise and Nuisance - Research Reports
The UK National Noise Attitude Survey (NAS) 1999/2000
A survey of community response to environmental noise involving over 5,000 respondents has recently been completed and has established a year 2000 benchmark for community response to noise in the UK. The survey was undertaken for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Devolved Administrations. The survey design involved two parallel population samples and two different noise attitude questionnaires. One of the questionnaires had been used previously in England and Wales during 1991, allowing BRE to investigate changes in attitude to noise over the last 10 years. The other was similar in principle, but was updated to incorporate features arising from recent research into the best design of such questionnaires. Comparison of the results of the two questionnaires also provides useful information on the influence of questionnaire design on the responses of those interviewed.
Documents are available as follows:
Volume 1: Methodology (Adobe Acrobat format, 470kb)
Volume 2: - Trends in England and Wales (Adobe Acrobat format, 300kb)
- Annex A: Tabulated data - NAS 91 and NAS 91-99 Surveys (Adobe Acrobat format, 560kb)Volume 3: - United Kingdom Results (Adobe Acrobat format, 280kb)
- Annex A - Tabulated Data
Part 1 (Adobe Acrobat format, 485kb)
Part 2 (Adobe Acrobat format, 571kb) Volume 4: Questionnaires
- NAS 91 Contact Questionnaire (Adobe Acrobat format, 130kb)
- NAS 91 Section A - Noise Type (Adobe Acrobat format, 110kb)
- NAS 91 Show Cards (Adobe Acrobat format, 40kb)
- Aircraft Noise (Adobe Acrobat format, 180kb)
- Detailed Neighbour Noise (Adobe Acrobat format, 130kb)
- NAS 99 Contact Questionnaire (Adobe Acrobat format, 330kb)
- Noise from Neighbours and other people nearby (Adobe Acrobat format, 170kb)
- Other selected noises (Adobe Acrobat format, 150kb)
- Railway Noise (Adobe Acrobat format, 170kb)
- Road Traffic Noise (Adobe Acrobat format, 240kb)
- NAS 99 Show Cards (Adobe Acrobat format, 130kb)
- NAS 99 Sort Cards (Adobe Acrobat format, 30kb)Volume 5: Questionnaire Comparison and Review (Adobe Acrobat format, 400kb)
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Pate last modified: 9 February 2004
Page published 20 May 2002