Harnessing Social Capital for Resilience to Livelihood Shocks: Ethnographic Evidence of Indigenous Mutual Support Practices among Rural Households in Eastern Ethiopia

Table 1

Analysis variable.

Variable	Measurement
Household demographics	Sex; Household size; Ethnic/tribal affiliation
Social networks	Network composition/diversity; Membership in groups; Network proximity/; Network size/density; Type
Access to household assets	Human capital (household labor condition, number of children, level of education, family wellbeing) Financial capital (money saved in the bank, money kept in the form of livestock), physical capital (land), political capital
Level of participation in groups	Number of groups a household belongs to
	Types and diversity of groups
	Frequency of participation and reciprocities
	Responsibility
Access to resources	Information, labor, financial, sentimental
Social resilience (dependent variable)	Coping, adaptive, and transformative capacities (see Figure 1 on the types of data)