Table 1 Characteristics of study sample of 3,533 individuals from 859 displaced households in Ampara, Sri Lanka due to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
N | (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Individual level | Total | 3,533 | |
Sex | male | 1732 | 49.0% |
Location when tsunami hit | indoors | 3,128 | 88.5% |
outdoors | 405 | 11.5% | |
Pre-existing health problem | yes | 339 | 9.6% |
Status | survived | 3,076 | 87.1% |
died | 446 | 12.6% | |
missing | 11 | 0.3% | |
Household level | Total | 859 | |
Living area | Karaitivu | 475 | 55.3% |
Sainthamarthu | 217 | 25.3% | |
Kalmunai | 167 | 19.4% | |
Ethnicity | Shinhalese | 2 | 0.2% |
Tamil | 474 | 55.2% | |
Moor | 383 | 44.6% | |
Educational level (highest level among householder and spouse) | no school | 83 | 9.7% |
primary | 198 | 23.1% | |
secondary | 513 | 59.7% | |
higher | 65 | 7.6% | |
Occupation of householder | farming | 30 | 3.5% |
fishing | 318 | 37.0% | |
laborer | 274 | 31.9% | |
trader | 35 | 4.1% | |
professional | 29 | 3.4% | |
others | 168 | 19.6% | |
none | 5 | 0.6% | |
Household income (Rupee) | nothing | 49 | 5.7% |
-2999 | 308 | 35.9% | |
3000- | 309 | 36.0% | |
6000- | 127 | 14.8% | |
10000- | 52 | 6.1% | |
15000- | 14 | 1.6% | |
House destruction | less than half | 48 | 5.6% |
more than half | 73 | 8.5% | |
totally | 738 | 85.9% |