El Salvador - GFDRR
El Salvador - GFDRR
El Salvador - GFDRR
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II. POPULATION AND AFFECTED AREAS | 43<br />
Of all companies surveyed, 26% report that they were affected by the disaster. Most of the affected<br />
companies (76%) resumed their activities within one week, and another 20% within two weeks. As<br />
shown in Table 17, the sectors in which more facilities were affected were the service and small commercial<br />
sectors, which together account for 80% of all businesses affected. By department, the largest<br />
number of businesses affected was in San Vicente (38%) and San <strong>Salvador</strong> (26%). Finally, in terms of size,<br />
one can observe that nearly 80% of the businesses affected are micro-businesses.<br />
BOX 2. SURVEY OF DAMAGES AND LOSSES IN THE COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL<br />
AND SERVICE SECTORS<br />
Taking advantage of the timeliness of the information, it was decided to conduct the survey of damages<br />
and losses in the 14 municipalities that Civil Protection evaluated as having experienced serious impact.<br />
The 14 municipalities are San Bartolomé Perulapia and San Pedro Perulapan in the Department of<br />
Cuscatlán, San Luis La Herradura, San Pedro Masahuat, Santa María Ostuma and Santiago Nonualco<br />
in the Department of La Paz, Ilopango, San Martín and Santiago Texacuangos in the Department of<br />
San <strong>Salvador</strong>, Guadalupe, San Vicente, Tepetitán and Verapaz in the Department of San Vicente, and<br />
La Libertad in the Department of the same name. The 14 municipalities surveyed represent 18.6% of<br />
the population, 10.9% of personnel employed, and 13.8% of the economic establishments of the 66<br />
municipalities affected by the disaster.<br />
The sampling framework was defined based on the directory of facilities used for the economic<br />
census conducted in 2005. As shown in the table, the large majority of facilities in these municipalities<br />
are micro-businesses with fewer than five employees. Taking the above into account, it was decided to<br />
conduct a stratified sampling of the approximately 12,000 businesses with fewer than five employees<br />
and to take a census of the rest. By type of activity, businesses were classified in five sectors: agroindustry,<br />
industry, large-scale commerce, small-scale commerce, and services.<br />
FACILITIES IN AFFECTED MUNICIPALITIES<br />
Size according to<br />
Degree of impact a<br />
Total<br />
employment<br />
Slight Serious Very serious<br />
1–4 6,533 62,440 12,000 80,973<br />
5–49 290 8,411 613 9,314<br />
50–99 12 474 19 505<br />
100–499 9 330 24 363<br />
500 and over 4 67 13 84<br />
Total 6,848 71,722 12,669 91,239<br />
a<br />
Degree of damages in municipalities, prepared by the General Bureau of Civil Protection according to the<br />
“Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis” (DANA) methodology.