School or Research Centre
School of Environment, Science and Engineering
Lead Partner Organisation
Southern Cross University
Other Partner Organisations
Foodworks Store Ballina
Contact
Jerome K. Vanclay, School of Environmental Science and Management, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore NSW 2480, Australia. jerry.vanclay@scu.edu.au
Keywords
Carbon label · Ecological footprint · E missions reduction · Green consumers · Consumer environmental purchasing behaviour
Recommended Citation
Jerome K. Vanclay, John Shortiss,Scott Aulsebrook, Angus M. Gillespie, Ben C. Howell, Rhoda Johanni, Michael J. Maher, Kelly M. Mitchell, Mark D. Stewart, Jim Yates. (2008) Ballina Carbon Labels. ePublications@SCU.
Description
These data were collected as part of a class exercise in FOR00110 Natural Resource Policy to examine community response to carbon labelling.The data were collected in a grocery store in East Ballina, a seaside suburb in northern New South Wales (Australia) with a demographic similar to the median for Australia. Data from an automated till was collected, enabling monitoring of weekly sales data before and after applying carbon labels to selected products. Hence, the primary data are point-of-sale volume data.
Data Collection Start Date
28-7-2008
Data Collection End Date
20-10-2008
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Viewing Instructions
Excel
Data Sources
Sales of 37 items during 12 weeks of the study. The typical item is a grocery item weighing about 1 kg.
Data Processing
Only one file; every row and column in the spreadsheet is labelled. Data arranged with columns representing weeks, and rows representing items – all clearly labelled. Raw data as a .csv is provided as well as .xls
Ballina Carbon Labels Data Analysis
Methodology
Thirty-seven products were labelled to indicate embodied carbon emissions, and sales were recorded over a 3-month period. Green (below average), yellow (near average), and black (above average) footprints indicated carbon emissions embodied in groceries.