American Journal of Climate Change, 2021, 10, 619-638 https://www.scirp.org/journal/ajcc ISSN Online: 2167-9509 ISSN Print: 2167-9495 DOI: 10.4236/ajcc.2021.104031 Dec. 28, 2021 619 American Journal of Climate Change A Nationwide Approach on Measuring Households’ Resilience by Constructing Climate Resilient Livelihoods Index (CRLI) in Rural Bangladesh Sifat E. Rabbi 1* , Reza E. Rabbi 2 , Sourav Karmakar 3 , Jürgen P. Kropp 1,4 1 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany 2 Research Associate, Change Initiative, Dhaka, Bangladesh 3 Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Patuakhali, Bangladesh 4 University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany Abstract This study developed households’ Climate Resilient Livelihoods Index (CRLI) in Bangladesh. CRLI indicators were selected based on the Adequacy of Hu- man livelihood conditions for Well-being and Development (AHEAD) frame- work and FAO resilience tools. The study was designed on cross-sectional data through a country-wide primary survey of 26,925 rural households. At first, we performed logistic regression to gauge the significance and intensity of different livelihood indicators on any specific livelihood indicator. Se- condly, we scored each household with the set criteria of different livelihoods accessibility, if any households fulfill the set criteria was “scored 1” and if not “scored 0”. After scoring the households, eight different scores for each household were summed up to construct a composite score of “CRLI”. If any household scored 0 - 2 was considered as low resilient, if any household scored 3 - 5 was considered as moderate resilient and if any household scored 6 - 8 was considered as highly resilient. Additionally, we used ArcMap to vi- sualize the percentage of households in districts with different resilience cat- egories. Findings revealed that nationally 1.7% of households were low resi- lient, 60% of households were moderate resilient and only 11.48% of house- holds were high resilient. More specifically, only 1.7% of households failed to secure any of the climate-resilient livelihood indicators, and only 0.06% of households secured all of them. Findings also revealed that food secured households had better adaptive capacity due to ensuring access to basic ser- vices, more financial capabilities, lower dependency ratio, and physical con- nectivity. In contrast, households with social safety net coverage had food in- How to cite this paper: Rabbi, S. E., Rabbi, R. E., Karmakar, S., & Kropp, J. P. (2021). A Nationwide Approach on Measuring House- holds’ Resilience by Constructing Climate Resilient Livelihoods Index (CRLI) in Rural Bangladesh. American Journal of Climate Change, 10, 619-638. https://doi.org/10.4236/ajcc.2021.104031 Received: September 14, 2021 Accepted: December 28, 2021 Published: December 31, 2021 Copyright © 2021 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access