Published October 11, 2024
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Characterisation of Social Vulnerability to the environmental hazard of flooding in Cork City and County, Ireland, derived from national census and EU Copernicus datasets.
Description
This dataset includes all input information for indicators that were used to derive social vulnerability and the overall processed data of the social vulnerability index score for the region of Cork, Ireland. The input variables used in this dataset come from the national census data for Ireland and EU Copernicus data.
The social vulnerability indicators used in these datasets are based on research including a review of existing literature and the interpretation of factors affecting social vulnerability. Interpretation of some indicators are contestable and open to debate.
Technical info (English)
Raw census population and housing data, and the EU Copernicus impervious data is not suitable for use within the vulnerability assessment. Instead, all these raw data are processed as z-scores. These z-score indicator columns are described below:
| Indicator | Description |
| SA_GUID__1 | Index related to each administrative area used by the census data. |
| young | Children aged under 6. |
| old | Population aged 75 years and over. |
| priSch | Population of primary school aged children (4 - 12 years old). |
| notVolunteers | Population who do not volunteer in the community. |
| poorHealth | Population who have bad or very bad general health. |
| disability | Persons with disability. |
| unemploy | Unemployed population. |
| lowSkill | Population in low skilled employment. |
| farming | Population employed in farming. |
| rent | Household population who are renting. |
| education | Population aged 15 years and over who have no formal education. |
| engLang | Population who do not speak English well or at all. |
| newRes | New residents from another county or outside Ireland (1 year or less). |
| travelTime | Population aged 5 years and over with more than one hour journey time to work, school or college. |
| noHeating | Households with no central heating. |
| noRenewableEnergyHouses | Households with no renewable energy source. |
| yearBuilt | Housing built on or before 1945. |
| mobHome | Households living in a caravan/mobile home. |
| unoccupiedDwellings | Unoccupied household dwellings. |
| oneParent | One parent household with children. |
| onePerson | One person households. |
| noCar | Households with no motor car. |
| noInternet | Households with no Internet. |
| priWater | Households with private water supplies. |
| familyUnits | Households with three or more children. |
| impervious | Percentage of impervious surface within each administrative area. This information is extracted from the 2018 High Resolution Layer Imperviousness Copernicus Data. Areas with greater amount of impervious surface may be more prone to flood events. |
| age | Age domain based on the young and old indicators. |
| health | Health domain based on the poorHealth and disability indicators. |
| income | Income domain based on the unemploy, lowSkill, farming, oneParent and familyUnits indicators. |
| info | Information access/use domain based on the noInternet, education engLang indicators. |
| locKnow | Local knowledge domain based on the newRes and noCar indicators. |
| mobility | Mobility domain linked to the noCar indicator. |
| access | Physical access domain linked to the travelTime indicator. |
| socNet | Social network domain based on the priSch, onePerson and notVolunteers indicators. |
| tenure | Tenure domain linked to the rent indicator. |
| physEnv | Physical environment domain linked to the impervious indicator. |
| houChar | Housing characteristics domain based on the noHeating, yearBuilt, mobHome, priWater, unoccupiedDwelings and noRenewableEnergyHouses. |
| sens | Sensitivity dimension based on the age and health domains. |
| prepare | Ability to Prepare dimension based on the income, info, locKnow and tenure domains. |
| respond | Ability to Respond dimension based on the income, info, locKnow, mobility, access and socNet domains. |
| recover | Ability to Recover dimension based on the income, info, mobility and socNet domains. |
| enhExp | Enhanced exposure dimension based on the physEnv and houChar domains. |
| vuln | Social Vulnerability Index based in the integration of all the dimensions. |
Files
cork_vulnerability_2022.csv
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2024-10-10Dataset created