Reporting guidelines for community noise reaction surveys

Difficulties in comparing the results from community noise studies have interfered with accumulating knowledge from combined social and acoustical surveys of residents' responses to environmental noise. As a partial solution an ICBEN team, Community Response to Noise, recommends guidelines for reporting on combined social/acoustical surveys of residents' reactions to noise. A table lists guidelines for information on 18 topics for publications of three levels of detail. The guidelines were developed in three years of correspondence with acoustical and social science experts from 12 countries. These guidelines are supported by the 11 members of the ICBEN noise team and the 26 experts listed in the Acknowledgements and Support for Guidelines section of this article.