Cross-National Measurement of Earthquakes and Other Natural Disasters - Final Phase

该奖项为根据美国国家科学基金会资助CES-8308744及其修正案收集的数据的最终分析提供资金。在这笔赠款的资助下，对包括美国加州、秘鲁、墨西哥、意大利、南斯拉夫和土耳其在内的六个国家的可比城市的家庭样本进行了1700多次访谈，目的是开发和测试一种跨文化有效的方法，以衡量灾害对家庭生活条件的影响。还收集了关于住房和家庭设备和陈设费用的数据以及社区基础设施的详细清单。这项工作扩展到1985年地震后在墨西哥城进行数据收集，以测试在实际灾害条件下评估损害的方法。将出版一本专著，其中将以一种可供其他学者使用的方式介绍测量技术，这些学者希望测量家庭层面的损害和损失，或测量灾难后家庭层面生活条件恢复的进展。

This award provides funding for the final analysis of data collected under NSF Grant CES-8308744 and its amendments. Under this grant, over 1700 interviews were conducted with samples of households in comparable cities in six countries including U.S.A.-California, Peru, Mexico, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Turkey, for purposes of developing and testing a cross-culturally valid method for measuring disaster impact on household living conditions. Data on the cost of housing and household equipment and furnishings was also collected along with detailed inventories of community infrastructure. This work was extended to conduct data collection in Mexico City after the 1985 earthquake to test the methods of assessing damage under real disaster conditions. A monograph will be published which will present the measurement technique in a manner that it can be employed by other scholars wishing to measure household level damage and loss or to measure progress toward the restoration of household level living conditions following a disaster.