"
God Belief" came from the
World Values Survey 1999-2004.
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/Here's the language of the survey question:
F050. Which, if any, of the following do you believe in? (Read out and code
one answer for each)
God
0 No
1 Yes
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-1 Don´t know
-2 No answer
-3 Not applicable
-4 Not asked in survey
-5 Missing; Unknown
So, for each country we derive a percentage - the number of persons that
answer "yes" divided by the total number of persons surveyed, mulitplied by
100.
Here's the data source for the
Natural Hazards Index.
Variable Reference Year: 2005
Description:
Environmental Hazard Exposure IndexUnits: An index of population-weighted exposure to high levels of
environmentally-related natural hazards.
Source:
The World Bank.
Logic: Vulnerability to natural disasters is a function of the exposure to
hazards (how often and how severe they are), the sensitivity to such hazards
(how big the linkages are to social systems), and the resilience within a
society to hazard impacts. This measure provides a useful proxy of the
exposure term.
Methodology: To calculate the environmental hazard exposure index, data from
Dilley et al. were used. Data on exposure to landslides, droughts, cyclones
and floods were put into a consistent GIS database. The world's land area was
classified into degrees of exposure to these four hazards. Those grid cells
falling into the highest three deciles of exposure were flagged. The number of
high-exposure hazards was summed for each grid cell. The values range from
0-4. The resulting gridded data set was then overlaid with a gridded
population data set for the year 2000. Each person was assigned a score equal
to the number of high-exposure hazards identified in that grid cell. We
calculated the sum of personal exposure scores, and divided by the total
population, by country. The theoretically possible range was 0-4.
