**This project contains supplementary material for the article “Cognitio populi — Vox populi: Implications of science-related populism for communication behavior”, which was published in *Communications* and available at https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2022-0059.**
Please cite the article as:
Mede, N. G., Schäfer, M. S., & Metag, J. (2023). Cognitio populi – Vox populi: Implications of science-related populism for communication behavior. *Communications*. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1515/commun-2022-0059.
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In this repository, we share the R syntax we used for the statistical analyses, as well as additional data and the appendix supplementing the article. It contains the following folders:
- **01 Syntax**: This folder contains all R syntaxes used for the analyses. They have to be executed in chronological order.
- **02 Additional Data**: This folder contains Swiss census data from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office BfS (“[Regionalporträts 2019: Kennzahlen aller Gemeinden][1]”) and a correspondence table for matching the municipality numbers of the census data with the postal codes from the survey data (PLZs). This table was also retrieved from the BfS (“[Umwandlung von PLZ in BFS-Gemeindenummer][2]”). We used these files to add inhabitant counts of respondents’ residence municipalities to the survey data. Inhabitant counts then served as a proxy measure for the degree of urbanity of respondents’ residence places.
- **03 Supplemental Files**: This folder contains the supplemental document in PDF format (which includes supplemental information, tables, and figures) as well as Main Figures 1-2 and Supplemental Figures S1-S5 in higher resolution.
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The survey data and additional materials (e.g., the questionnaires and a methodological report, the former in German, French, and Italian, the latter only in German) are publicly available in the online repository [SWISSUbase][3] (doi: [10.48573/wpf5-hf36][4]).
[1]: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfsstatic/dam/assets/7786544/master
[2]: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfsstatic/dam/assets/7226419/master
[3]: https://www.swissubase.ch/de/
[4]: https://doi.org/10.48573/wpf5-hf36
