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iSERS datastory.pdfiSERS_Dec25.pdf
Sample iSERS (ODK xls form)
A IiERS Survey formatted to upload directly into Kobo Toolbox. Tailor to your program requirements.iSERS_ODK.xlsxGoogle Sheet: Click on the top-right corner of the thumbnail to access the file. Download the document to edit in Excel or make a copy in your Google drive.
Recommended Analysis Steps
Recommended Analysis Steps
Average scores across all six questions (automatically in KoboToolbox or manually in Excel)
Classify average scores into three categories
2-3 - High Resilience
1-2 - Moderate resilience
0-1 - Low resilience
Create stacked barcharts for six main questions and classification
Explore which questions had the biggest impact
Break down by key intersectional charactestics (gender, age, education, disability etc.)
Create heatmap tables for the average scores
Break down by key intersectional charactestics (gender, age, education, disability etc.)
Example results from Nepal. See Learning Brief No.4
RR_Revealing Disability_No1.pdfCollaboration with SNV (Bhutan, Laos, Nepal)
RR_WaterAid_No2.pdfCollaboration with WaterAid (Liberia, Zambia, Pakistan)
RR_WorldVision_No3.pdfCollaboration with World Vision (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
RR_Adara_No4.pdfCollaboration with Adara (Nepal)
Adapting and validating a subjective resilience scale to explore individual climate resilience: gendered evidence from Bhutan, Laos and Nepal
In this paper, we describe the process of adapting and validating a scale to measure individual climate resilience with reference to four climate events (floods, drought, landslides and severe storms) with specific emphasis on intra-household differences. The tool was adapted from the Subjective Self-Evaluated Resilience Score and piloted during 2022 in Bhutan, Lao PDR, and Nepal (n = 2,406) leading to a reliable six-item scale (omegaT = 0.90–0.96). In nearly all geographies, there were statistically different resilience scores between women and men and only low agreement between spousal-dyad pairs.
Type: Journal Article
Date: February 2026
Citation: MacArthur J, Budhathoki RB, Dhakal S, Choden J, Wangchuk U, Halcrow G, & Willetts J (2026). Adapting and validating a subjective resilience scale to explore individual climate resilience: gendered evidence from Bhutan, Laos and Nepal. Climate and Development, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2026.2623010
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