Q-methodology data: levers that may strengthen the European food legume value chains

This is an annonymized data repository for use during a double-blinded manuscript review.

The data presented in this repository originates from a Q-methodology study concerning stakeholder viewpoints on the relative potential of various levers for strengthening the value chains for Danish, German, Polish and Spanish food legumes. Between February and April 2024, 79 value chain stakeholders placed 34 statements on a fixed nine column, quasi normal grid (column heights: 2–3–4–5–6–5–4–3–2) following the prompt: “From my professional point of view, it may strengthen the value chains insignificantly/significantly if…”. The grid columns were labelled 1 (most insignificantly) to 9 (most significantly). This repository contains two datasets:

Dataset 1: This dataset include one row per Q-sort/respondent (79 in total) yielding information about the nationality of the respondent, and the column allocation (1-9) of the 34 statements (s1-s34). It should be noted that all respondents also completed a second Q-methodology sorting exercise related to their viewpoints on various value chain barriers. To enable matching of the responses to these two exercises, the Participant IDs presented in this dataset corresponds to those presented in the dataset with barrier Q-sorts, which can be found here: doi.org.  

Dataset 2: This dataset include the actual wording of the 34 lever statements. The statement numbers (s1-s34) correspond to those used in Dataset 1.