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Empowerment, especially of women and girls, is an important - but hard to measure - development outcome. This page provides tips and resources for collecting data on empowerment.   
Empowerment, especially of women and girls, is an important development outcome but difficult to measure. This page provides tips and resources for [[Primary Data Collection|collecting data]] on empowerment.   
 


== Guidelines ==
== Guidelines ==
JPAL has prepared an excellent [https://www.povertyactionlab.org/practical-guide-measuring-women-and-girls-empowerment-impact-evaluations Practical Guide to Measuring Women and Girls' Empowerment in Impact Evaluations]. 
[https://www.povertyactionlab.org/sites/default/files/resources/practical-guide-to-measuring-women-and-girls-empowerment-appendix1.pdf Appendix 1] provides example [[Survey Pilot|survey]] questions related to empowerment and tips on using them, including the following categories:
#Economic indicators
#Social indicators
#Intimate partner and family indicators
#Political and civic indicators
#Psychological indicators
#Education indicators
#Health indicators.
[https://www.povertyactionlab.org/sites/default/files/resources/practical-guide-to-measuring-women-and-girls-empowerment-appendix2.pdf Appendix 2] provides examples of non-[[Survey Pilot|survey]] instruments.


JPAL prepared an excellent [https://www.povertyactionlab.org/practical-guide-measuring-women-and-girls-empowerment-impact-evaluations | Practical Guide to Measuring Women and Girls' Empowerment in Impact Evaluations]. [https://www.povertyactionlab.org/sites/default/files/resources/practical-guide-to-measuring-women-and-girls-empowerment-appendix1.pdf|Appendix 1] provides example survey questions related to empowerment and tips on using them, including the following categories: Economic indicators, Social indicators, Intimate partner and family indicators, Political and civic indicators, Psychological indicators, Education indicators, and Health indicators. [https://www.povertyactionlab.org/sites/default/files/resources/practical-guide-to-measuring-women-and-girls-empowerment-appendix2.pdf | Appendix 2] provides examples of non-survey instruments.
Oxfam has a [https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/a-how-to-guide-to-measuring-womens-empowerment-sharing-experience-from-oxfams-i-620271 How-to Guide to Measuring Women's Empowerment], sharing the experiences from their own research. It includes details on their measurement tool, along with example '''survey''' modules and '''Stata do-files'''.  
 
Oxfam has a [https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/a-how-to-guide-to-measuring-womens-empowerment-sharing-experience-from-oxfams-i-620271 | How-to Guide to Measuring Women's Empowerment], sharing the experiences from their own research. It includes details on their measurement tool, along with example survey modules and stata do files.  


Oxfam's [https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/methodology/real-geek/2018/07/how-to-measure-womens-empowerment | Real Geek blog] provides details of a recent discrete choice experiment to assign implicit weights to the empowerment indicators which reflect the views and the perceptions of the women interviewed in the survey.
Oxfam's [https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/methodology/real-geek/2018/07/how-to-measure-womens-empowerment Real Geek blog] provides details of a recent discrete choice experiment to assign implicit weights to the empowerment indicators which reflect the views and the perceptions of the women interviewed in the '''survey'''.


IFPRI developed a [http://www.ifpri.org/publication/womens-empowerment-agriculture-index | Women's Empowerment Agricultural Index], which measures the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector in an effort to identify ways to overcome those obstacles and constraints. The [http://www.ifpri.org/publication/instructional-guide-abbreviated-womens-empowerment-agriculture-index-weai | Instructional Guide] provides details on survey methodology, adapting the tool to local contexts, training enumerators, data cleaning, and analysis.  
IFPRI developed a [http://www.ifpri.org/publication/womens-empowerment-agriculture-index Women's Empowerment Agricultural Index], which measures the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector in an effort to identify ways to overcome those obstacles and constraints. The [http://www.ifpri.org/publication/instructional-guide-abbreviated-womens-empowerment-agriculture-index-weai Instructional Guide] provides details on '''survey''' methodology, adapting the tool to local contexts, [[Enumerator Training|training enumerators]], [[Data Cleaning|data cleaning]], and [[Data Analysis|analysis]].  


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== Additional Resources ==
== Additional Resources ==
* list here other articles related to this topic, with a brief description and link
*DIME Analytics (World Bank), [https://github.com/worldbank/DIME-Resources/blob/master/survey-instruments.pdf Guidelines on survey design and pilot]
 
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Latest revision as of 16:52, 8 August 2023

Empowerment, especially of women and girls, is an important development outcome but difficult to measure. This page provides tips and resources for collecting data on empowerment.

Guidelines

JPAL has prepared an excellent Practical Guide to Measuring Women and Girls' Empowerment in Impact Evaluations. Appendix 1 provides example survey questions related to empowerment and tips on using them, including the following categories:

  1. Economic indicators
  2. Social indicators
  3. Intimate partner and family indicators
  4. Political and civic indicators
  5. Psychological indicators
  6. Education indicators
  7. Health indicators.

Appendix 2 provides examples of non-survey instruments.

Oxfam has a How-to Guide to Measuring Women's Empowerment, sharing the experiences from their own research. It includes details on their measurement tool, along with example survey modules and Stata do-files.

Oxfam's Real Geek blog provides details of a recent discrete choice experiment to assign implicit weights to the empowerment indicators which reflect the views and the perceptions of the women interviewed in the survey.

IFPRI developed a Women's Empowerment Agricultural Index, which measures the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector in an effort to identify ways to overcome those obstacles and constraints. The Instructional Guide provides details on survey methodology, adapting the tool to local contexts, training enumerators, data cleaning, and analysis.

Back to Parent

This article is part of the topic Questionnaire Design

Additional Resources