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Interviews with participants about their use of ChangeExplorer. The interviews were semi structured. It also induces the data that people put forward through the ChangeExplorer App.

This text describes the data presented in the paper: Urban planning, public participation and digital technology: App development as a method of generating citizen involvement in local planning processes

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Introductory information
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Files included in the data deposit (include a short description of what data are contained): 

1) Interview with participant
2) Interview with participant
3) Interview with participant
4) Interview with participant
5) Interview with participant
6) Interview with participant
7) Interview with participant
8) Interview with participant
9) Interview with participant
10) Interview with participant
11) Interview with participant
12) Interview with participant
13) Interview with participant
14) Interview with participant
15) Interview with participant
16) Interview with participant
17) Methods - Detail the questions asked to the participants of the studies, and the methods used to evaluate ChangeExplorer
18) Project Demographics - the demographics of the participants of the study
19) Responses - the responses made through ChangeExplorer App


Explain the relationship between multiple data sets, if required:
The datasets are split into two sets; interviews and responses through the App.


Key words used to describe the data:
Interview, app, responses.


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Methodological information
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A brief method description � what the data is, how and why it was collected or created, and how it was processed:



Instruments, hardware and software used: 

1) NVivo for interview analysis
2) Custom App written for the collection of ChangeEx paper.


Date(s) of data collection: 
Detailed in paper


Geographic coverage of data:
North East England


Data validation (how was the data checked, proofed and cleaned):
Validated by lead researcher.


Overview of secondary data, if used:



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Data-specific information
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Definitions of names, labels, acronyms or specialist terminology uses for variables, records and their values: 



Explanation of weighting and grossing variables: 



Outline any missing data:



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Contact
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