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Dataset on Citizens’ Perceptions of Urban Resilience: Survey Results from Veracruz—Boca Del Río Metropolitan Area, Mexico

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This paper presents a dataset developed to characterize the citizens’ perceptions of urban resilience applied to the Veracruz—Boca del Río Metropolitan Area (VBMA) in Mexico. The data were obtained by conducting online surveys, which were administered to a total of 147 subjects, including 89 from the municipality of Veracruz, 35 from Boca del Río, 15 from Medellín de Bravo, and 8 from Alvarado, with ages ranging from 16 years to over 61 years. The survey was designed to estimate the population’s perception of the Urban Resilience Index (URI) and the Urban Resilience Profile (URP). It was developed derived from a methodology based on IMPLAN and enriched with questionnaires from Villada and SEDATU, resulting in a final questionnaire comprising 10 axes, 33 indicators, and 156 variables. A novel contribution was implemented as a significant study case, which uses the dataset to estimate the URI and URP to the VBMA applying the Entropy Method, considering three criteria: age, gender, and municipality. Here, citizens’ perceptions about urban resilience have been estimated in an URI equal to 0.4571, resulting in a moderate level of resilience. Moreover, this perception could be improved by conducting a full-scale survey with substantial financial investment.

Source: Data

DOI: 10.3390/data11010013