Perception of risks from natural disasters caused by floods

The subject of quantitative research is examination of citizens perception of the risk of natural disaster caused by flood and their household vulnerability assessment. The independent samples T-test has examined the connection of gender, parenthood, employment, disability and previous experience whereas a single-factor analysis of variance has been used to examine the connection of age, level of education and marital status to perception of risk and household vulnerability assessment. The objective of the conducted research is the scientific explanation of the effect of the abovementioned variables. 2,500 citizens in 19 local communities have been questioned by the application of survey strategy in households and multiple random sampling. The results of the research show that 13.4% of the respondents emphasize that there may be flood in the following year, 28.9% of the respondents think that there may be flood in the following five years and 39.3% of the respondents emphasize that their household is threatened. The statistically significant connection between perception of risks, parenthood, previous experience, military obligation, age and marital status has been determined. Household vulnerability assessment is statistically greatly connected to parenthood, previous experience, military obligation, level of education and marital status. The results of the research can be used to raise awareness of risks from natural disasters caused by floods as the key precondition for improving their readiness to respond.