This readme file was generated on 2025-07-21 by Ben Ingram


GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of Dataset: Rice grain arsenic dataset for paper titled Arsenic contamination of rainfed versus irrigated rice.

Author
Name: Ben Ingram
ORCID: 0000-0003-4557-4342
Institution & Theme: Cranfield University, FEAS
Address: College Rd, Wharley End, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK
Email: ben.ingram@cranfield.ac.uk

Principal Investigator
Name: Guy Kirk
ORCID: 0000-0002-7739-9772
Institution & Theme: Cranfield University, FEAS
Address: College Rd, Wharley End, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK
Email: g.kirk@cranfield.ac.uk


Date of data collection: 2018-01-01 to 2018-12-31 

Geographic location of data collection: Bangladesh

Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: BBSRC BB/R020388/1 


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: Creative Commons Licence

Links to publications that cite or use the data: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126856

Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: N/A

Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: N/A

Was data derived from another source? No.
If yes, list source(s): 

Recommended citation for this dataset: To follow when published.


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

File List:
FullData-Ingram2025-Arsenic_contamination_of_rainfed_versus_irrigated_rice.csv
Ingram2025-Dataset_Description.txt

Relationship between files, if important: FullData-Ingram2025-Arsenic_contamination_of_rainfed_versus_irrigated_rice.csv contains the dataset and Ingram2025-Dataset_Description.txt contains the data description.

Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: No.

Are there multiple versions of the dataset? No
If yes, name of file(s) that was updated: 
Why was the file updated? 
When was the file updated? 


METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126856

Methods for processing the data: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126856

Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: 

People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: 


DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [FILENAME]
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Number of variables: 75

Number of cases/rows: 939

Variable List: Contained in file: Ingram2025-Dataset_Description.txt

Missing data codes: None