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The Quality and Accuracy of Disaster Data: A Comparative Analyses of Three Global Data Sets

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Recognising the need for better quality data to support disaster preparedness and mitigation, the ProVention Consortium of the World Bank Disaster Management Facility, initiated a consolidated effort to evaluate the quality, accuracy and completeness of three global disaster data sets. These were NatCat maintained by Munich Reinsurance Company (Munich); Sigma maintained by Swiss Reinsurance Company (Zürich) and EM-DAT maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels).

Author:

Debarati Guha-Sapir, Regina Below

Organisation:

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters

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English

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