Anticipatory mobility, psychological distress, and flood exposure among young adults in seven flood-prone communities in Metro Manila and Central Luzon, Philippines (2026)
Description
This dataset contains de-identified survey responses from 370 young adults aged 18 to 29 living in seven flood-prone communities in Metro Manila and Central Luzon, Philippines, surveyed online in May 2026. It was collected to measure anticipatory mobility: the sustained psychological orientation toward leaving a place because of flood risk, held by people who may never move. Each response covers 58 items across four instruments: a 15-item Anticipatory Mobility Scale developed for this study (alpha = .949), the DASS-21, the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale, and the 12-item Place Attachment Inventory. Also recorded are age, sex, community, flood experience frequency over the preceding three years, personal flood experience, prior evacuation, and stated plans to leave. Respondents are classified as Stayers (229), Planners (106), or Circular Movers (35, displaced temporarily and returned). Item-level responses and derived scale scores are both provided, with every scoring rule documented and verified against the data. Fifteen careless-response indices accompany each response: longstring runs, intra-individual response variability, even-odd consistency, extreme-endpoint proportions, Mahalanobis distance, duplicate-pattern group size, and per-block variability. The analytic file holds the 370 responses used in the associated article; the screening file holds all 541 responses in the export with their index values, classification, and an inclusion indicator, so the exclusion path from 541 to 370 can be reconstructed or re-specified at different thresholds. Reuse is supported for psychometric work on a new measure of anticipated mobility, including invariance testing across the seven sites; for substantive analysis of anticipated departure and distress under alternative specifications; and for methodological work on careless-response screening, since index values are retained for excluded as well as retained responses. Email addresses, submission timestamps, and consent text were removed from the source export before these files were created, and their absence was verified across every column. Only the combination of age, sex, and community remains potentially identifying; no school, barangay, street, or contact information was collected. Each row is one submitted response, not a verified unique person. The data are cross-sectional and self-reported from a single occasion, supporting associational analysis only. The README documents de-identification, scoring, screening thresholds, sample derivation, and ethics approval; the codebook documents all 103 variables. Item wording for the published instruments should be obtained from their original sources.
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Institutions
- Centro Escolar UniversityNational Capital Region, Manila