DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13913850
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.


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.