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TABLE 1 Analysis of resilience measurement practices ORIENTING QUESTION
Substantive features of resilience measurement
Initial- and subsequent-state measures What is the outcome of interest?
• Dimensions of well-being • Contextual factors • Systems
Disturbance measures To what set of conditions is resilience a response?
• Covariate shocks • Idiosyncratic shocks • Stresses • Cumulative effects of stresses
Capacity measures
What resources and responses are included as mea- sures of resilience capacities?
Resources: • Human-social • Economic-financial • Political-institutional • Material-physical • Agroecological • Ecological
Structural-methodological features of resilience measurement
Scale of measurement For whom or for what entities will the capacity for resilience be examined?
• Individuals • Households • Communities • Institutions and governments • National economies
Temporal aspects of measurement At what points in time will data be collected?
• Frequency • Specific timing • Duration
Type of measurement
What types of data are included as part of resilience measurement?
• Objective and subjective • Qualitative and quantitative
• Individual demographic subcategories (such as women, children, displaced persons, a community), geographic subcategories (such as urban, peri- urban, rural), institutional functioning, components of national economy (such as trade)
• Quasi-arbitrary points (such as baseline, midline, endline), developmentally sensitive, episodically determined (such as the occurrence of a shock event)
• Factual records of shocks • Perceptual data on well-being • Projective data on future states
• Rating scales, interviews, ethnographic observations
Source: Constas and Barrett 2014.
• Poverty, food security, health, social connectedness
• The contexts and systems that enable attainment of targeted outcomes
• Catastrophic events, climate change, sociopolitical events, health events, agricultural events, economic events
• Individual capacity, social cohesion, asset holdings and productive assets, markets, stability of government and institutions, physical infrastructure (roads, electricity, and the like), resources to support agricultural production, natural resources
POTENTIAL DIMENSIONS
EXAMPLES OF MEASUREMENT DIMENSIONS
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