Phoenix Area Social Survey (PASS): 2011

The Phoenix Area Social Survey (PASS) parallels the Ecological Survey of Central Arizona (formerly, Survey 200) as a long-term monitoring program of the CAP LTER. Every five years, the PASS research team surveys households in selected neighborhoods in the metropolitan Phoenix area to better understand perceptions, values, and behaviors on several key environmental issues, including water conservation, urban growth, air pollution, land conservation, biodiversity and urban climate change, as well as perceptions about their neighborhoods. The survey was piloted in 2001-2002 in eight neighborhoods in Phoenix with 302 respondents and grew to 40 neighborhoods and 800 households in 2005. The PASS research team added five new neighborhoods to the survey design in 2011 to incorporate areas co-located with other CAP research endeavors and to expand the sample of low-income neighborhoods and included additional questions relevant to the housing crisis and recession and access to healthy food in the city.