APA Digital Coast Needs Assessment Survey

Needs: Data

Pacific Islands Region

TABLE 4j.

a. Responses to Question #13 (What other data needs do you have to best support your planning practice/ analysis/research?) are provided in the Raw Survey Response Matrix.

Table 4j lists 21 data sets for which Pacific Islands coastal region respondents were asked to identify needs to support planning practice, analysis, and research.

The five data sets with the highest percentage of respondents indicating they had no need are:

1. Navigational (38%);
2. Economic Output by Business Sector (38%);
3. Benthic Environmental Data (34%);
4. Employment by Business Sector (34%); and
5. Marine Jurisdictional Boundaries (34%).

The five data sets with the highest percentage of respondents indicating they needed current data are:

1. Land Elevation (66%);
2. Archaeological/Cultural Resources (66%);
3. Marine Jurisdictional Boundaries (62%);
4. Building Quantities & Types (55%); and
5. Water Quality (55%). 

The five data sets with the highest percentage of respondents indicating they needed time-series data are:

1. Land Cover and Land Cover Change (48%);
2. Shoreline Erosion (45%);
3. Relative Sea Level Rise (38%);
4. Aerial/Satellite Imagery (31%); and
5. Land Use (28%).

The five data sets with the highest percentage of respondents indicating they needed data projections are:

1. Risk Management Data (34%);
2. Relative Sea Level Rise (31%);
3. Population Attributes (24%);
4. Population Counts (21%); and
5. Shoreline Erosion (21%).