Household Risk Preparation Indices—Construction and Diagnostics

Household Risk Preparation Indices—Construction and Diagnostics

Recent years have seen growing interest in the conceptualization and measurement of household risk preparedness at the cross-country level. This paper discusses the challenges faced in the design of composite indices, including indicator selection, aggregation, weighting, and how they might be addre...

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Main Author: Foa, Roberto
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:
risk preparedness
risk index
household risk
indicators
index design
index diagnostics
aggregate index
weighting
principle components analysis
PCA
imputation
estimated margin of error
rescaling
factor analysis
indicator correlation
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16370

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16370

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