# Project Overview

**Dataset Title**: Autistic Accounts of Sensory Overload and Implications for Sensory Reactivity
**Principal Investigator**: David R. Simmons, David.Simmons@glasgow.ac.uk
**Key Contact**: Elliot Millington, Elliot.Millington@glasgow.ac.uk
**Dates of Data Collection**: 01/02/2023 - 26/04/2023
**Location**: United Kingdom (collected online)
**Keywords**: Autism, Sensory Overload
**Language**: All questions and answers are in English
**Funding Source**: ESRC Collaborative Studentship in partnership with Edify.ac, ES/P000681/1

# Data Overview

## sensory-overload_participant_responses.csv
**Date of Creation**: 08/01/2024
This comma separated values file contains all of the participant responses to the questions of this study. Each participant is represented on a single row. The columns consist of a single ID column (which was randomly assigned) and a column for each of the 8 questions where the column header is the full question text, for a total of 9 columns. Some responses have been lightly edited to remove identifying infomation, but are otherwise in their original form. 

## sensory-overload_demographics.csv
**Date of Creation**: 08/01/2024
This comma separated values file contains the demographic infomation collected during this project. It consists of three columns representing gender, education, and age. Each participant consists of a single row. The order of the file has been sorted to remove any ordered relationship to the qualitative data.

# Methodological Infomation
For full details on the the data collection process and analysis, please refer to the reports available at: https://osf.io/8qzdt/