Post-Hurricane
Katrina
Research and Recovery Work
Frederick
D. Weil
Department of Sociology
Louisiana State University
"Reconstituting
Community: Paths to Recovery
in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina."
(Funded by the National Science Foundation.)
A comparison of
communities in New Orleans & surrounding areas since
Hurricane Katrina. Surveys of churches & faith-based
organizations, neighborhood associations, and other communities.
Research includes evaluations of stress, and assessments
of damage and re-flooding risk. Research investigates the
contributions of community, social networks, and organizations
to recovery and rebuilding. Combines survey, GIS (geographical
information systems), and organizational analyses in a
multi-method, multi-level framework.
- Project
Descriptions - An Analytical
Overview, here.
- The Results, broken down by selected social groups [Updated
9/18/2009]
- Plus a slide
show overview here:
- Descriptions
of the research, from research proposals to the National
Science Foundation, from February
2008 and August
2007 (accepted).
- An Initial
Description, from May 2006, here.
- Selected preliminary
analyses, here and here.
(see below for more)
- Selected preliminary
maps, here.
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Location
of Respondents' Pre-Katrina Residence (partial)
Sample Size over N = 5,600 as of 11/2009
[Blue shades are flooding extent]
More maps here
Survey
Questionnaires
- On Paper, here.
Leaders can print this out and duplicate as many copies
as they need, to distribute to their membership.
- (See
bottom of
this page for an OLD version of the questionnaire)
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On
the Internet, here.
Members can go here to take the survey on the internet. [They
can choose versions for several Parishes.]
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Companion
Survey Questionnaires -
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Organizational
Survey of Neighborhood Associations, here.
Survey now in the field in collaboration with NPN,
the Neighborhoods Partnership Network, as part
of their Capacity College. To be merged with surveys
of individuals in a multi-level framework.
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Organizational
Survey of Churches, here.
Interviews of church leaders and administrators,
asking about their recovery strategies. We will
seek to survey their congregations with our social
survey and merge the individual and organizational
surveys in a multi-level framework.
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GIS
Housing Survey, here.
Data collected on PDAs with GPS locating unit,
with accompanying photographs. Augmented by video
imagery with GPS collected from vehicle. To be
merged with surveys of individuals.
- Survey
Questionnaires from Related Projects (see other sections
of this website) -
- Contractor
Fraud Survey, here.
- NOLA
YURP Survey, the Young Newcomers to New Orleans.
Main
questionnaire here;
questionnaire of prospective YURPs,
here).
Samples
- for a fuller list of organizations we have worked
with, see here. In
all cases, we give survey results back to the groups we
work with.
- The Catholic
Churches of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, in Orleans & surrounding
parishes,
- The Episcopal, Lutheran,
Methodist, & Southern Baptist churches
in the Greater New Orleans area,
- A number of other Baptist & A.M.E. churches,
- The Jewish
Communities of Greater New Orleans & Baton Rouge, through
the Jewish
Federations & Synagogues,
- Chalmette, in St.
Bernard Parish,
- The Vietnamese of
New Orleans East (photos here),
- Several dozen
(and counting) Neighborhood Associations,
- Outreach with Acorn, LouisianaRebuilds.Info,
the Neighborhoods
Partnership Network, PolicyLink,
and many other community and advocacy organizations,
- In cooperation
with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which sponsored
the survey on their online Neighborhood Forums (here).
- Clients of
Social Service organizations and community centers,
- Evacuees who
have not (yet) returned to New Orleans, including residents
of FEMA trailer villages and living in other cities (see
photos of data collection at Renaissance Village here),
- New Orleans
Musicians, Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs (data
collection pics here and
here and here), & Mardi
Gras Indians, in cooperation with Sweet
Home New Orleans, WWOZ public
radio, and the Roots
of Music program,
- Young newcomers
to the city who are engaged in entrepreneurial and social
justice activities, in partnership with NOLA
YURP (Young Urban Rebuilding Professionals).
- More samples
will follow.
Results (to
be reported as they become available...watch this space!)
- The Results,
so far, here.
- An Analytical
Overview, here.
- A preliminary
analysis of whether Social Capital reduces Violent Crime,
here.
- A comparison
of four different communities, here.
- Selected preliminary
maps, here.
- Jewish Federation of
Greater New Orleans: many results here
- Selected
preliminary findings from early, nonrepresentative sample, here. (Data
collected second half of 2006.)
- Causal
Diagram - Preliminary results & analyses support
this formulation.
- Operationalization
of variables.
Papers & Publications
- "The Role
of Community in Disaster Response: Conceptual Models," by
Kavita Patel (RAND), Olivia Patterson (RAND), and Frederick
Weil (LSU). Forthcoming in Population Research and
Policy Review for a special issue on Hurricane Katrina. Draft here.
Resources & Background
for Community Leaders, here -
including the items below and more
- What you
can learn from the survey, here.
- A note to leaders
describing the project, here
- If you lead a
team of volunteers who want to participate, here
- Announcements of
the survey for Churches or Neighborhood
Associations that can be used in bulletins, newsletters,
handouts, emails, websites, etc.
- Easy Ideas for
distributing the Survey, here
- A Question
and Answer Sheet (FAQs) for survey respondents, here.
Resources & Background
for Interviewers
- Students working
on our Research Team, here.
- Students
transcribing the Vietnamese language version, begin
here.
- Volunteer Interviewers, here
- Data Entry Links,
here
Pictures
of Data Collection. In
all cases, we give survey results back to the groups we
work with.
- At the Annual
Social Aid & Pleasure Club Task Force
Picnic, May 30, 2009; photos of interviewing here.
Photos of the Nine Times SAPC Second Lining to the Hot 8
Brass Band at the picnic, here.
- In Village de
l'Est in the Vietnamese community, in partnership with
Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church and Community
Development Corporation. Photos here.
- In Treme
and the 7th Ward. Data collection in February-April
2009; photos here.
We partnered with the 7th Ward Neighborhood Center, the "Porch,"
and other community organizations in these classic New Orleans
neighborhoods.
- Young
Men Olympians Social Aid & Pleasure Club, at
their clubhouse in Central City. Data collection in January
2009; photos here.
We put on a party with the YMO, who celebrated their
125th anniversary this year, with a meal & brass
band.
- The Roots
of Music, after-school music program for middle-school
students. Students took questionnaires home to their
parents & returned them completed; summer 2008. Info,
videos, photos here;
more photos here and here.
- Acorn's Community
Center in the Lower 9th Ward; New Orleans East. Data
collection in April 2008; photos here.
- Pontchartrain
Park & Gentilly Woods (Pontilly). Data collection
in January 2008; photos here.
We worked with the Pontilly Neighborhood Association,
who brought in 40 law student volunteers from around
the country.
- Renaissance
Village, Baker, LA, the largest FEMA trailer site.
Data collection in July 2007; photos here.
We organized a party with resident leaders, featuring
dinner & a brass band. (We worked with the residents
from the village's opening after the storm until its
closing in 2008. For instance, we put in a cafe, which
became a community center.)
Research
Partners
- Sociology
- Troy Blanchard,
LSU Department of Sociology
- Matthew
Lee & Edward Shihadeh, LSU Department of Sociology
- GIS (Geographical
Information Systems: computer mapping)
- Barrett
Kennedy, Architecture, Director of LSU’s CADGIS Lab
- John Pine, LSU
Department Geography, and Director of Disaster
Science and Management (emeritus)
- Andrew
Curtis & Jackie Mills, USC Department of Geography
- Organization
Surveys
- Partners
in Other Areas
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