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The Louisiana Community Oil Spill Survey (Coss) Dataset, Michael R. Cope, Tim Slack, Troy C. Blanchard, Matthew R. Lee, Jorden E. Jackson
The Louisiana Community Oil Spill Survey (Coss) Dataset, Michael R. Cope, Tim Slack, Troy C. Blanchard, Matthew R. Lee, Jorden E. Jackson
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This article presents an overview of the Louisiana Community Oil Spill Survey (COSS), the dataset used in “Community Sentiment following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster: A Test of Time, Systemic Community, and Corrosive Community Models” [1] as well as elsewhere [2–6]. The COSS, administered by the Louisiana State University's Public Policy Research Laboratory, consists of five waves of cross-sectional trend data attuned to the characteristics and effects of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon (BP-DH) oil spill on those coastal Louisiana residents most affected by the disaster. Respondents were randomly drawn from a list of nearly 6,000 households in the …