Digital Readiness and Disaster Resilience in Flood-Prone Communities of Pampanga, Philippines
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digital readiness, disaster resilience practices, flood warning, Pampanga, community-based DRRM, missing dataAbstract
Recurrent flooding in Pampanga requires disaster-risk communication that connects household practices with access, connectivity, local institutions, and the capacity to act on warnings. This cross-sectional secondary analysis used a final article-specific source workbook containing 694 populated Community Resilience and Transformability Survey records from 22 barangays in 10 municipalities and one city. To restrict the publication analysis to adults, we excluded 81 records in the combined 10–19 age category and 11 records with missing or invalid age codes, yielding 602 adult records. Descriptive statistics, internal-consistency estimates, missing-data analysis, and exploratory associations were calculated using transparent item-scoring and minimum-completion rules. We used brief project field notes only as contextual observations. The disaster-practice index averaged 2.52 of 3.00 (n=482; Cronbach’s α=0.84), indicating relatively frequent self-reported preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery practices. The digital-readiness composite averaged 1.05 of 2.00 (n=311). Institutional-support orientation was high (mean=2.47/3.00; n=531), whereas sustainability readiness was moderate (mean=1.99/3.00; n=529). Reported availability was highest for CCTV/security systems (75.3% of valid responses), water/waste technologies (74.6%), solar systems (67.6%), and early-warning alarms (61.1%); flood-monitoring sensors were reported by 21.8%. Adult respondents most often selected weak internet connectivity as a technology barrier (39.5%). Digital readiness had a small positive association with disaster-practice scores (Spearman ρ=0.163, p=0.008). The findings describe self-reported practices and perceived service availability rather than verified operational resilience. Hybrid warning systems, last-mile confirmation, accessible communication, localized monitoring, and livelihood-sensitive preparedness are needed. Non-probability recruitment and substantial item-level missingness require cautious interpretation.
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