Social Capital Encourages Disaster Evacuation: Evidence from a Cyclone in Bangladesh

Abstract

Our survey data consist of 427 households in 24 villages including both severely affected and moderately affected/non-affected villages. We employed a multistage stratified random sampling methodology. In the first stage, we selected the three sub-districts (upazila) of Samnagar, Kaliganj, and Ashashoni based on their economic status and the intensity of the cyclone damage. In the second stage, we randomly sampled two unions from each sub-district. In the next stage, four villages from each union and one cluster (para) from each of the villages were randomly selected. This paper considers para as a unit of community. In these para, the survey team created a list of all households. According to the list, the size of a para ranges from 27 to 189 households in the survey area and the average size is 67.1 households. Finally, 18 households were randomly chosen from each para based on the list. Specifically, we randomly selected one household from the list and then determined the remaining 17 so that the 18 households were located with equally spaced intervals in each para. Since five

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