Assessing the impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami on households: a modified domestic assets index approach

This paper offers a potential measurement solution for assessing disaster impacts and subsequent recovery at the household level by using a modified domestic assets index (MDAI) approach. Assessment of the utility of the domestic assets index first proposed by Bates, Killian and Peacock (1984) has b...

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Published in:Disasters 2010-07, Vol.34 (3), p.705-731
Main Authors: Arlikatti, Sudha, Peacock, Walter Gillis, Prater, Carla S., Grover, Himanshu, Sekar, Arul S. Gnana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis of Variance
Coastal areas
Crosscultural Differences
Culture
Data analysis
disaster impact assessment
Disasters
Domestic
domestic assets index
Economic losses
Europe
Family Characteristics
Female
Households
housing recovery
Humans
India
Indian
Indian Ocean
Living Conditions
Male
Measurement
Models, Econometric
Nagapattinam
Natural Disasters
Oceans
Organizations
Recovery
Reproducibility of Results
Risk Assessment - methods
Southern Europe
Statistics as Topic
surge
Tamil Nadu
Tracking
tsunami
Tsunamis
Tsunamis - economics
United States of America
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Summary:This paper offers a potential measurement solution for assessing disaster impacts and subsequent recovery at the household level by using a modified domestic assets index (MDAI) approach. Assessment of the utility of the domestic assets index first proposed by Bates, Killian and Peacock (1984) has been confined to earthquake areas in the Americas and southern Europe. This paper modifies and extends the approach to the Indian sub‐continent and to coastal surge hazards utilizing data collected from 1,000 households impacted by the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004) in the Nagapattinam district of south‐eastern India. The analyses suggest that the MDAI scale is a reliable and valid measure of household living conditions and is useful in assessing disaster impacts and tracking recovery efforts over time. It can facilitate longitudinal studies, encourage cross‐cultural, cross‐national comparisons of disaster impacts and inform national and international donors of the itemized monetary losses from disasters at the household level.
ISSN:0361-3666
1467-7717
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01166.x