Surviving the Pakistan Earthquake: Perceptions of the Affected One Year Later

This report outlines the results of a survey of 621 Pakistani households in the five most affected districts of the North-West Frontier Province (Abbottabad, Batagram, Kohistan, Mansehra, and Shangla), conducted in August 2006, 10 months after the earthquake. The earthquake-affected households were asked to record damage or loss by responding to questions of resource sufficiency both before the earthquake and almost a year later. They were also asked to recall the principal providers of relief goods and services 2 months after the earthquake and at the time the study was implemented (10 months after the earthquake). Finally, they were asked to provide their perceptions of the adequacy, timeliness, quality, and distribution of the aid that they received, and their satisfaction with the same.