Research Article

Assessing Resilience to Climate Change in US Cities

Table 3

Sets of questions from the stowell dataset.

Social featureQuestion from the Leigh Stowell datasetRange of response options*Range of values for index*

Trust as a measure of social capital(1) “Most public officials are only interested in people with money”1–5 2–10
(2) “Too many people are getting free ride in today’s society”1–5

Open-minded thinking(1) “I believe everything is changing too fast today”1–5 3–15
(2) “I believe the word was created in six days, just like the Bible says”1–5
(3) “I believe all young men should serve in the military”1–5

Source: Leigh Stowell dataset.
*The lower the value of response, the higher the value of the attribute.