Country Vulnerability Scores Comparing Weighting Methods and Poverty Inclusion

A dataset by James Avoka Asamani, last updated May 6, 2026, and shared on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It contains vulnerability scores for countries, calculated using different methods for weighting variables and with the option to include poverty as a variable. The dataset is provided in an XLS format and is 13.5 KB in size.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking country vulnerability based on different weighting schemes mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing the impact of including or excluding poverty as a variable on national vulnerability rankings.
• Comparing methodological approaches for aggregating socio-economic and environmental risk indicators.

Strengths

• Explicitly compares results from different methodological choices for weighting variables.
• Includes analysis of the effect of poverty variable inclusion on final scores.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by James Avoka Asamani.

Collection Method

Likely derived from secondary data sources and composite index calculations.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 17:34:49; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Countries (specific list unknown).