How your resilience diagnostic works

1. An approach grounded in the hierarchy of needs

The diagnostic is based on Maslow's hierarchy, transposed to crisis resilience: your preparation is assessed level by level, from the most vital (drinking, eating, staying warm) to the most strategic (anticipating, planning an evacuation). The vital levels weigh most heavily in the score — a gap at the base costs more than a gap at the top — but each level counts separately: strong strategic preparation never cancels out an uncovered vital need, and only partly masks it.

2. The five dimensions assessed

P — Physiological needs: drinking, eating, protection from the cold, hygiene and first aid. The vital foundation.

M — Material security: getting information without a network, making fire, lighting, repairs, paying without a card, proving your identity.

A — Social capital: who you can genuinely count on nearby. Neighbourhood solidarity.

K — Cognitive autonomy: your practical skills (first aid, self-sufficiency) and your relationship with risk — paralysis, denial or action.

V — Planning and strategy: your ability to anticipate and to carry out a plan (a fallback place, a rehearsed evacuation).

3. Answers turned into an objective measure

Each question describes a concrete situation: “no water from the tap”, “a general power cut”. Each answer is worth a number of points fixed in advance and identical for everyone. Your points are then measured against the maximum attainable on that theme, giving a preparation percentage from 0 to 100 %.

This normalisation ensures no theme mechanically outweighs another simply because it offers more options — and that the scale stays comparable from one person to the next.

4. A weighting that reflects vital priorities

Not all needs are equal: having water matters more than being handy with tools. Each dimension therefore carries a weight, calibrated by how vital it is. Physiological needs weigh the most, long-term planning the least.

5. An overall preparation score

The weighted combination of your five dimensions produces an overall preparation score. At this stage it measures your means and your skills independently of where you live: it is your “raw” resilience base.

6. Putting it in the context of real risk

Being well prepared does not mean the same thing everywhere. For each hazard — heat, cold, flooding, drought, energy outage — we therefore cross your exposure, both as you perceive it and as your territory objectively presents it, with how prepared you are on the themes that hazard actually calls on.

The principle: complete preparation is never penalised — a perfect score stays perfect. A gap, on the other hand, only lowers your score if it concerns a risk you are genuinely exposed to. Having no drinking-water solution sharply lowers the score in a drought area, but much less elsewhere.

7. Your final score and how to read it

The result is a score out of 100, together with a level and a radar profile of your five dimensions. Above all, the diagnostic identifies your “weakest link”: the least solid dimension, which is your priority for action. Because by the logic of the pyramid, it is the lowest uncovered level that sets your real vulnerability.

8. Our transparency commitment

This score is a starting point, not a verdict. It rests on what you tell us, and it exists to help you improve — and then to measure that improvement over time. The scale and the weightings are explicit, documented and open to revision as the method is refined. No black box: every point of your score can be traced and explained.