Measuring Disaster Impact on Household Living Conditions: The Domestic Assets Approach* Academic Article

abstract

• Disaster researchers need to develop a standardized battery of measurement instruments of key variables determined to be important in assessing disaster impact and recovery. Such a tool kit is critical for insuring a quick and rapid response of researchers and will facilitate research comparability. This paper introduced one such measure, the domestic assets index, which is designed to assess levels and changes in household living conditions. Also discussed are, the theory behind the measure, its utility for disaster research and the measures reliability and validity using data collected in six sample communities located in the United States, Italy, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Turkey, and Peru.

authors

• Peacock, Walter

published proceedings

• Mass emergencies and disasters

author list (cited authors)

• Bates, F. L., & Peacock, W. G.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• Bates, Frederick L||Peacock, Walter Gillis

publication date

• March 1992

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

keywords

• 11 Sustainable Cities And Communities
• Basic Behavioral And Social Science
• Behavioral And Social Science
• Clinical Research

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/028072709201000107

start page

• 133

end page

• 160

volume

• 10

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/028072709201000107

user-defined tag

• 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities