TITLE:
Assessing Community Resilience Outcomes of Flood-Vulnerable People in Bangladesh by Using a 5-Point Likert Scale: A Study on Bakshiganj Upazila
AUTHORS:
Md. Abdus Sattar
KEYWORDS:
Community Resilience Outcomes, Flood, Bangladesh, Likert Scale
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.14 No.9,
September
15,
2026
ABSTRACT: This study examined the perceived outcomes of resilience by investigating 16 community resilience outcome statements on a 5-point Likert scale, where 1 = Strongly Disagree and 5 = Strongly Agree. The analysis included a diverging stacked bar chart of full response distributions and a bubble mean score chart, which analyzed the central tendency and texture of community opinion. There are no scores 4.0, which is considered “agree”. The most regularly agreed-upon and highly rated answer was vulnerability mapping, with a mean of 4.29 and a 60% flow of strongly agree responses, confirming it as the first building block of community preparedness. The results of the top tier of scores, covering risk reduction through community participation (4.20), precautionary measures (4.19), sustainable livelihoods (4.17), and property damage reduction (4.16), showed this to be the case, and that the score for each of these was only 0.04 points apart, indicating that respondents’ experiences of risk-reduction efforts, precautionary measures, sustainable livelihoods, and property damage reduction are reinforcing rather than discrete program outputs. The greatest collective agreement was for precautionary measures, where 76% agreed or strongly agreed, indicating the most cross-sectional resonance in the community for taking preventive measures. The two lowest outcomes (NGO support to coping and DRM awareness) were found to be above the neutral threshold, suggesting relatively low community confidence in external support mechanisms and awareness-raising efforts. Post-disaster health safety (3.90) scored slightly below the agree threshold, highlighting ongoing post-flood poor conditions with regard to maintaining health and hygiene. The results show that there are two distinct future strengthening directions to be taken, such as the perception of external support and health maintenance after disaster.