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...by assessing its impact on the distribution of risks

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Aggregate indicator title

Distribution of risks

Description

Distribution of adverse effects among different groups in society

Domain

Society

Qualitative/Quantitative

Quantitative & Qualitative

Primary/Secondary data

Primary and Secondary data

Source of data

Primary: Project partners, participants

Secondary: Project documentations (reports, information on websites, publications etc.); Online repositories (e.g. Science Direct, Google Scholar, etc.)

Time series

Yes, ex ante and ex post

Unit of measurement (observation)

Absolute values & nominal

Unit of analysis

Project

Analytical level (logic model)

Context, input, process, output, outcome, impact

Links with indicators in other domains

Economy

Data collection method(s)

Interviews with citizen observatory members and non-members stakeholders; review of project documentations (reports, log-books, etc.); analysis of the initiative tools (platforms, Apps, etc.); literature review

Data collection item(s)

8-10 questions are available for each topic in the indicator building - too elaborate to include here

Indicator building

Distribution of resources

  • Gap between people with the highest and the lowest income
  • Distribution of creative and flexible capacities
  • Distribution of access to information and potential help
  • Gini coefficient of household disposable income and gap between richest and poorest 10%.
  • Digital divide
  • Distribution of Digital Savviness
  • Perceived level of own digital skills
  • Availability of internet connection (mobile, fixed)
  • Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex (SDG 5.b.1)
  • Proportion of individuals using the Internet (SDG 17.8.1)

Distribution of adverse effects

  • (Availability of) impact maps of relevant region
  • Perceived distribution of potential impacts
  • Direct disaster economic loss in relation to global GDP (SDG 1.5.2)
Availability of data

Low

Feasibility

Resource demanding

Comments/caveats
Source of indicator definition

Wehn et al. (2017, 2019, 2020)