Dwelling Damage Profile

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A point-in-time record of post-shock housing and shelter conditions for a household, typically anchored to a triggering hazard event. Captures the observed damage level, current habitability, shelter arrangement, functional status of essential services, non-food items missing, and stated reconstruction intent alongside the administration context (instrument, respondent, assessment location). Baseline housing and WASH properties are reused from SocioEconomicProfile to describe the dwelling's usual characteristics.

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Properties

Property Type Definition
Administrative
identifiers unknown
subject unknown
observation_date unknown
performed_by unknown
instrument_used unknown
software_used unknown
administration_mode unknown
respondent unknown
respondent_relationship unknown
items_asked unknown
Shelter
dwelling_type unknown
floor_material unknown
wall_material unknown
roof_material unknown
Damage level string (shelter-damage-level)
Severity of physical damage to the assessed dwelling, observed during a post-shock structural assessment. Recorded against a standardized five-tier scale aligned with IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix labels.
Structural safety assessment string (structural-safety-tag)
Optional structural safety tag assigned by a qualified engineer or trained shelter assessor, using the ATC-20 green/yellow/red taxonomy. Frequently null: a household enumerator is not expected to assign a structural safety tag, and many post-shock administrations do not include a structural inspector visit.
Habitability
Habitability status string (habitability-status)
Programming-facing judgement of whether the assessed dwelling can currently be occupied and what category of shelter response it requires. Distinct from damage_level: a moderately damaged structure may still be habitable, and a lightly damaged one may be vacated for other reasons.
Current shelter type string (shelter-situation-type)
Type of shelter arrangement the household is currently occupying at the time of assessment. Complements dwelling_type (which records the household's usual dwelling) by recording where the household is actually living now, particularly when the original dwelling is damaged, inaccessible, or vacated.
Water & Sanitation
water_source unknown
sanitation_facility unknown
electricity_access unknown
Services disrupted string (service-disruption-type)
Essential services (water, sanitation, electricity, telecommunications) that are currently degraded at the household's dwelling after the shock. Multi-select. Codes cover both full outage and partial-function cases: water may be absent, intermittent, or present-but-unsafe; sanitation may be unusable or present-but-overflowing; electricity may be absent or intermittent. Distinct from the household's baseline service infrastructure type, which is recorded by water_source, sanitation_facility, and electricity_access.
Recovery
Missing essential items string (nfi-item-type)
Categories of non-food items the household currently lacks and would need to meet minimum shelter and settlement standards. Multi-select across the Sphere 2018 minimum NFI package.
Reconstruction intent string (reconstruction-intent)
The household's stated intent regarding the damaged dwelling: repair in place, rebuild in place, relocate, unable to act without external support, or undecided. Used by recovery programming to target repair grants, reconstruction grants, and relocation assistance.
Hazard event
Triggering hazard event concept:HazardEvent
The hazard event that triggered this record. On DwellingDamageProfile the referenced HazardEvent identifies the flood, earthquake, cyclone, drought, conflict event, or other shock the post-shock assessment is responding to. A record may omit this property when the damage is chronic or not attributable to a single event.
Location
Location of assessment concept:Location
The physical location where the post-shock assessment was carried out, typically the location of the assessed dwelling. Distinct from Household.location (which is the household's registered administrative or coordinate location): the two may differ if the household has displaced, relocated, or is temporarily sheltering elsewhere while the assessed structure remains at its registered site.

Aligned standards

Standard Equivalent Match
FHIR R4 QuestionnaireResponse (post-disaster shelter assessment) close
A household-level post-shock shelter assessment serializes naturally as a QuestionnaireResponse whose Questionnaire is the program's assessment form.

Referenced by this concept

  • ATC-20 Applied Technology Council, 1989
  • FHIR R4 Health Level Seven International (HL7), 2019
  • Global Shelter Cluster Global Shelter Cluster (IFRC/UNHCR co-led)
  • IASC MIRA Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), 2015
  • IOM DTM International Organization for Migration (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix
  • Sphere 2018 Sphere Association, 2018
  • UNDP/EU/WB PDNA United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), European Union (EU), and World Bank (WB), 2017