DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15676780
title: 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.
description: 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.




early_childhood



Children aged under 6 (0 - 5 years old).





age_middle_to_oldest_old

Population aged 75 years and over (75+ years old).




poor_health

Population who have bad or very bad general health.




disability

Persons with disability.




one_parent_households

One parent household with children.




three_or_more_children_households

Households with three or more children.




low_skilled_employment

Population in low skilled employment.




farmers

Population employed in farming.




unemployment

Unemployed population.




no_higher_education

Population aged 15 years and over who have no formal education.




speak_english

Population who do not speak English well or at all.




no_internet

Households with no Internet.




new_residents

New residents from another county or outside Ireland (1 year or less).




foreign_nationals

Population who are foreign nationals (born outside Ireland).




no_car

Households with no motor car.




rented

Household population who are renting.




journey_time

Population aged 5 years and over with more than one hour journey time to work, school or college.




not_volunteers

Population who do not volunteer in the community.




primary_school_age



Population who are not primary school aged (4 - 12 years old).





one_person_households



One person households.





no_central_heating

Households with no central heating.




private_water_supply

Households with a private water supply.




year_built

Housing built on or before 1945.




mobile_home

Households living in a caravan/mobile home.




unoccupied_dwellings

Unoccupied household dwellings.




tree_cover_density

Indicator of tree cover.


impervious
Indicator of impervious surfaces.


age
Age domain based on the young and old indicators.


health
Health domain based on the poor_health and disability indicators.


income
Income domain based on the one_parent_households, three_or_more_children_households, low_skilled_employment, farmers and unemployment indicators.




info_access_use

Information access/use domain based on the no_higher_education, speak_english, and no_internet indicators.




local_knowledge

Local knowledge domain based on the new_residents, primary_school_age, abd and foreign_nationals indicators.




mobility

Mobility domain linked to the no_car indicator.




physical_access

Physical access domain linked to the journey_time indicator.


tenure
Tenure domain linked to the rented indicator.




social_network

Social network domain based on the not_volunteers, onePerson and one_person_households indicators.




housing_characteristics

Housing characteristics domain based on the no_central_heating, private_water_supply, year_built, mobile_home, and unoccupied_dwellings indicators.




physical_environment

Physical environment domain based on the tree_cover_density, and impervious indicators.




sensitivity

Sensitivity dimension based on the age and health domains.




prepare

Ability to prepare dimension based on the income, info_access_use, local_knowledge and tenure domains.


respond
Ability to respond dimension based on the income, info_access_use, local_knowledge, mobility, physical_access, and social_network domains.


recover
Ability to recover dimension based on the income, info_access_use, mobility, social_network, and part housing_characteristics domains.




adaptive_capacity

Adaptive capacity dimension based on the income, info_access_use, local_knowledge, mobility, physical_access, social_network, and part housing_characteristics domains.


enhanced_exposure
Enhanced exposure dimension based on the physical_environment domain and part housing_characteristics domains.


social_vulnerability
Social Vulnerability Index based on the integration of all the indicators.