Table 1 Numbers of respondents (%) that reported damage to property, disruption to services, health concerns and perceived risk according to level of water in the home
From: Psychosocial impact of the summer 2007 floods in England
Perceived risk | ||||||||
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Damage to property (%) | Disruption to essential services (%) | Asked to evacuate but refused (%) | Asked to evacuate and evacuated (%) | Reported health concerns at the time of the survey (%) | Perceived house values will be worse (%) | Perceived their finances will be worse (%) | Perceived the local environment will be worse (%) | |
South Yorkshire | ||||||||
All respondents (n = 999) | 347 (34.7) | 320 (32.0) | 116 (11.6) | 203 (20.3) | 236 (23.6) | 690 (69.1) | 223 (22.3) | 291 (29.1) |
Water level | ||||||||
Not affected (n = 304) | 3 (1.0) | 47 (15.5) | 12 (3.9) | 12 (3.9) | 31 (10.2) | 198 (65.1) | 29 (9.5) | 77 (25.3) |
Outside the house (n = 286) | 30 (10.5) | 85 (29.7) | 39 (13.6) | 44 (15.4) | 45 (15.7) | 194 (67.8) | 35 (12.2) | 81 (28.3) |
Below floor level (n = 72) | 41 (56.9) | 23 (31.9) | 14 (19.4) | 13 (18.1) | 19 (26.4) | 54 (75.0) | 24 (33.3) | 25 (34.7) |
Above floor level (n = 272) | 265 (97.4) | 158 (58.1) | 51 (18.7) | 128 (47.1) | 132 (48.5) | 228 (83.8) | 126 (46.3) | 99 (36.4) |
Worcestershire | ||||||||
All respondents (n = 1267) | 169 (13.2) | 125 (9.8) | 18 (1.4) | 46 (3.6) | 138 (10.8) | 624 (49.2) | 162 (12.7) | 270 (21.3) |
Water level | ||||||||
Not affected (n = 573) | 6 (1.0) | 28 (4.9) | 4 (0.7) | 0 | 41 (7.2) | 259 (45.2) | 38 (6.6) | 119 (20.8) |
Outside the house (n = 343) | 15 (4.4) | 36 (10.5) | 1 (0.3) | 5 (1.5) | 36 (10.5) | 182 (53.1) | 39 (11.4) | 77 (22.4) |
Below floor level (n = 62) | 32 (51.6) | 13 (21.0) | 2 (3.2) | 8 (12.9) | 10 (16.1) | 46 (74.2) | 15 (24.2) | 17 (27.4) |
Above floor level (n = 117) | 114 (97.4) | 43 (36.7) | 11 (9.4) | 33 (28.2) | 38 (32.5) | 100 (85.5) | 60 (51.3) | 35 (29.9) |