Some studies that explore household consumption behaviour treat the disturbance term as stemming from measurement error and, thus, usually assume that the variance of the disturbance term is the same for all households.
Again, it is not possible to explore household factors related to the observed clustering (despite its obvious utility) because geographic information system data are only available for the centroids of the villages and at compound levels in the large villages, where a compound is made up on average of four households.
A few studies have explored household level tree planting and its impact on environmental conservation.
Household surveys can be valuable in exploring household characteristics associated with insurance membership, but are less able to shed light on why these patterns are observed, nor are they able to readily unpack the supply side and institutional barriers to enrolment; which are better examined through qualitative methods.
The third objective was to explore whether households in different locations perceived different Natech risks and adopted different protective actions.
Linking livelihood approaches to resilience thinking is imperative to enhance the understanding of livelihood dynamics and to explore how households maintain and improve their livelihoods in the face of natural disasters (Scoones, 2009; Sallu et al., 2010).
The study did not explore how households which made catastrophic health payments coped with the situation and its impoverishment effects, if any.
The United Kingdom provides a useful case study therefore, within which to explore how households react to psychological interventions, as the United Kingdom has "one of the oldest and least efficient housing stocks in Europe" (Boardman et al., 2005, p. 38), and there is indeed opportunity for householders to upgrade their homes.
Through her lecture series, Sparks Will Fly: How to Hack Your Home, George will explore how household technology can be used to take control of devices on the other side of the world, to monitor how well people recover from accidents, and even make contact with the International Space Station.
