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Creating Emergency Prepared Households—What Really Are the Determinants of Household Emergency Preparedness?
Author(s) -
Nukpezah Julius A.,
Soujaa Ismail
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
risk, hazards and crisis in public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1944-4079
DOI - 10.1002/rhc3.12142
Subject(s) - preparedness , ordinal regression , socioeconomic status , ordered logit , social vulnerability , social capital , logistic regression , scale (ratio) , vulnerability (computing) , emergency management , demographic economics , business , socioeconomics , geography , psychology , economics , environmental health , medicine , economic growth , sociology , social psychology , computer security , computer science , social science , population , cartography , management , machine learning , psychological resilience
We draw on social capital and social vulnerability explanations to investigate the determinants of household emergency preparedness using data from the 2008 General Social Survey (GSS) and multivariate ordinal logistic regression. We develop an ordinal‐level scale for household emergency preparedness. We also create indices for individual social capital and risk perception, which correlate with higher levels of household emergency preparedness. We show that race and gender per se do not make households more or less prepared for emergencies because these variables are proxies for socioeconomic inequalities in society. Our study provides insights into household emergency preparedness and direction for policymaking.