Developing Victims' Life Reconstruction Indicators by Social Survey

－Ten Years Monitoring in the Great Hanshin-Awaji(Kobe) Earthquake Disaster－

Abstract

We clarified the life reconstruction process for ten years after the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake Disaster and examined the stability and reliability of indicators capable of objectively measuring reconstruction process through the analysis of the data from the social random sampled surveys, which were conducted in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005. We found that; 1) although redeveloping destructed cities is progressing steadily in ten years, the impact of the disaster remains in local economy; 2) the victims with large house damage have not yet recovered well from the disaster in ten years; 3) the indicators can stably explain victims' and affected area's present conditions.