Rural Livelihood Sustainability Scores for 171 Residents in India's Sundarban Region

A dataset of 171 resident responses evaluating 10 livelihood options across 12 criteria in India's Sundarban coastal region. The data supports a multi-criteria decision-making framework integrating economic, social, and environmental dimensions for policy analysis. The dataset was authored by Sanjib Biswas and last updated on June 1, 2026.

Use Cases

• Ranking livelihood options based on criteria like job creation and greenhouse effect mitigation mentioned in the description
• Calculating sustainability balance and resilience potential indices for rural economic activities
• Aggregating individual community perspectives for group-level policy evaluation
• Testing the proposed DRAAS and WENSLO multi-criteria decision-making methods

Strengths

• Includes data from 171 residents, providing a community-level perspective
• Evaluates 10 distinct livelihood options against 12 criteria
• Proposes specific quantitative indices for sustainability balance and resilience
• Provides performance scores for top options (e.g., agriculture 0.8135)

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the single Sundarban region study

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data gathered from literature review, field observations, and community interactions with 171 residents.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 09:57:00; freshness should be verified

Geography

Sundarban coastal region of India