Socio-Demographic | Percent of female head households | A Higher proportion of female members increases vulnerability. |
Percentage of households where head of the household has not attended school | A Higher percentage of households has not attended school, and not owned Radio increase vulnerability. | |
Percent of households do not own Radio | ||
Age of the household head | Positive | |
Dependency ratio | Higher dependency ratio increases vulnerability. | |
Inverse of Percent of households attended agricultural training | A Higher proportion of households attended training reduce vulnerability, but here an inverse is considered. | |
Social Networks | Percent of households that have not gone to local government for assistance | A Higher proportion of households do not go to the government for assistance, borrowed money, do not help others, and receive help from others increase vulnerability. |
Percent of households borrowed money through social networks | ||
Percent of households do not help others | ||
Percent of households who received help from others. | ||
Inverse of Membership in social group | More memberships in social groups reduce vulnerability but here an inverse is considered. | |
Natural Disaster and Climate Variability | Average number of floods and drought over the past 20 years | Higher the incidence of natural disasters, higher is the vulnerability |
Percent of households that didn’t receive a warning about natural disasters | The higher proportion of households does not receive warning system the higher the vulnerability. | |
Percent of households whose family members injured or died because of climate change | Higher prop oration of households affected by climate change the higher the vulnerability. | |
Mean standard deviation of Monthly Avg. max. temperature (1991-2015) | Increasing temperature increase vulnerability. | |
Mean std. deviation of monthly Avg. minimum temperature (1991-2015) | Increasing temperature increase vulnerability. | |
Mean std. dev. of monthly Avg. Precipitation (1919-2015) | Decreasing precipitation increase vulnerability. |