Table 3.

Variables and eigenvalues used to construct weighted community resilience-capacity index.

Variable Name	Relation to Resilience Capacity	% Original Variance Explained by Factor	Rescaled Variance
Expenditures for education	positive	20.13	29.18
Median income of the parish	positive	13.53	19.61
Percent of the workforce that is female	positive	10.4	15.08
Mean elevation of the parish	positive	10.2	14.79
Percent of the population below 5 years old	positive	9.1	13.1
Percent of the population that voted in the last presidential election	positive	5.7	8.26