README - 2020 Aquaponics Industry Survey Use Guide

Thank you for your interest in the 2020 Aquaponics Industry Survey data. The results of this survey represent an international set of respondents that were solicited from email, social media, and word-of-mouth advertising from December 2019 to June 2020. The survey was conducted using Qualtrics. The survey codebook contains the original survey questions and serves as a guide for understanding any qualitative or quantitative data that is represented by numbers. The data in the spreadsheet have been deidentified to protect the confidentiality of the survey respondents. However, the unique respondent codes are retained for further analysis if necessary.

This research was conducted in partial fulfillment of a doctoral dissertation by David Allen Pattillo, permanently hosted at https://etd.auburn.edu/handle/10415/7618. This project was supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive grant no. 2017-38420-26765 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and by the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. Please contact the author with any questions or concerns about the data. Additionally, please contact the author for permission if you would like to publish anything based on the analysis of this dataset. The author can be reached via email at dapatt@umd.edu or dap0005@auburn.edu.