Resilience is a meaningful, measurable trait of communities

Figures & data

Table 1. PCA weightings from 2018 Census variables for resilience index.

Census variable	PCA first component weight
Access to Internet, percent	0.275
Home ownership, percent	0.241
Secondary education, percent	0.194
Bachelor’s degree, percent	0.183
No religious affiliation, percent	0.171
Population change, 2013–2018, percent	0.0782
Dependency ratio	0.0464
No access to telecommunications, percent	−0.0355
No vehicle ownership, percent	−0.0521
Unemployment, percent	−0.0718
Participate in volunteering, percent	−0.138
People who smoke, percent	−0.247
Te reo speakers, percent	−0.315
Identify as Māori, percent	−0.754

Figure 1. Scatterplot of the resilience index and 2018 Census administrative enumeration.