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% | |