Assessing Needs After the Quake: Preliminary Findings from a Randomized Survey of Port-au-Prince Households

Author(s)
Kolbe, A., Muggah, R., Hutson, R., James, L., Puccio, M., Trzcinski, E., Shannon, H., Levitz, N. and Noel, R.
Publication language
English
Pages
60pp
Date published
01 Apr 2010
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, Disasters, Shelter and housing, Earthquakes, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction

 

This report features the preliminary findings of a major randomized post-disaster household survey conducted in Port-au-Prince in late February and early March 2010. It is the only geo-referenced pre- and post-disaster survey (comparing 2009 and 2010 population samples) available. With some 2,947 households sampled it also constitutes the most comprehensive survey of general and displaced/camp population needs undertaken since the January 2010 earthquake. The study was administered by a team of Haitian, American and Canadian researchers affiliated with the University of Michigan and the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey.