This article presents the construction of the database for the IMAGEUN Student Survey on macro-regional imaginaries, practices, and spatial representations of students. Produced as part of the ANR-DFG IMAGEUN project, this questionnaire-based survey was conducted between November 2021 and June 2022 among more than 2,000 students in five countries (Germany, France, Ireland, Tunisia, and Turkey). It uses numeric mental maps to analyze the semantic and spatial dimensions associated with regions of the world. After presenting the questionnaire and survey methodology, we discuss the challenges of numeric mental maps for understanding geographical imaginaries, in line with previous work on the analysis of vague and subjective spatial objects.

This article presents the construction of the database for the IMAGEUN Student Survey on macro-regional imaginaries, practices, and spatial representations of students. Produced as part of the ANR-DFG IMAGEUN project, this questionnaire-based survey was conducted between November 2021 and June 2022 among more than 2,000 students in five countries (Germany, France, Ireland, Tunisia, and Turkey). It uses numeric mental maps to analyze the semantic and spatial dimensions associated with regions of the world. After presenting the questionnaire and survey methodology, we discuss the challenges of numeric mental maps for understanding geographical imaginaries, in line with previous work on the analysis of vague and subjective spatial objects.