Table 2 Calculated weights of the vulnerability indicators

Institutional capacity

Proportion of houses with exclusive sanitary facilities

Temperature

Proportion of population 65 years or older

Wind velocity

Proportion of crowded households

Proportion of households with sewage treatment service

Average number of children per household

Proportion of households with garbage collection service

Proportion of households with land phone service

Relative humidity

Illiteracy rate

Proportion of population working agriculture, hunting or fisheries

Proportion of population less than 5 year old

Proportion of households on agriculture owning land

Average time in business

Proportion of households receiving water through piped system

Proportion of population with mobile access

Precipitation

Average business revenues

Proportion of population not under social security coverage

Proportion of population with any permanent disability

Proportion of households living on owned house

Proportion of population with private health insurance

Proportion of households below poverty line

Proportion of households with electricity service

Proportion irrigated land/total agricultural land

Proportion of population affected by disasters

Proportion of population with internet access

Minimum distance to large town

Proportion of households with access to computer

Tax revenues per capita

Net rate high school attendance

Funds for environmental protection per capita

Proportion of households with proper sanitary facilities

Population per non-medical doctor

Employment rate

Population density

Proportion of households where head is female

Number of patients per hospital bed

Proportion of population working in own business

Average energy consumption (Kwh/annum)