Human sensitivity index (2010) - ClimAfrica WP4

The “human sensitivity index” represents the social component of sensitivity in 2010 and it is related to the degree to which a human society is dependent from the agriculture production. It derived from the combination of three underlying indexes: the “rurality index”, the “malnourishment index” and the “gender gap index”. These original indexes resulted from Principal Component Analysis among 14 potential variables, and they represent the three principal component highlighted by such analysis. The analysis allowed compute the weights for the three underlying index as 0.5, 0.3 and 0.2 for the “rurality index”, the “malnourishment index” and the “gender gap index” respectively. This dataset has been produced in the framework of the “Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa: impacts and adaptations (ClimAfrica)” project, Work Package 4 (WP4). More information on ClimAfrica project is provided in the Supplemental Information section of this metadata.