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Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Initiative 2018 Baseline [Burkina Faso]

URL
https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/6255
Description

The SWEDD initiative in Burkina Faso focuses on advancing women's empowerment to spur demographic transition and mitigate gender disparities. This project seeks to empower young women by promoting entrepreneurship through business skills training and grants, and by enhancing access to reproductive health information and contraception, thereby aiming to lower fertility rates.

The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab, along with its partners, is conducting detailed impact evaluations of the SWEDD program’s key initiatives to gauge their effects on child marriage, fertility, and the empowerment of adolescent girls and young women.

This data represents the first round of data collection (baseline) for the impact evaluation and include a household and community level surveys. The household level sample comprises 9857 households, 70,169 individuals and 9382 adolescent girls and young wives aged 24 living in the Boucle du Mouhoun and the East regions of Burkina Faso. The community level sample includes 175 villages.

The insights derived from this survey could help policymakers develop strategies to:
- Reduce fertility and child marriage by enhancing access to contraceptives and broadening reproductive health education.
- Promote women’s empowerment by increasing their participation in economic activities

The data consists of responses from households to questions pertaining to:

  1. List of household members
  2. Education of household members
  3. Occupations of household members
  4. Characteristics of housing and durable goods
  5. Food security
  6. Household head's aspirations, as well as those of a boy aged 12 to 24
  7. Opinions on women's empowerment and gender equality

The questionnaire administrated to girls contains the following sections:

  1. Education
  2. Marriage and children
  3. Aspirations
  4. Health and family planning
  5. Knowledge of HIV/AIDS
  6. Women's empowerment
  7. Gender-based violence
  8. Income-generating activities
  9. Savings and credit
  10. Personal relationships and social networks
  11. Committee members and community participation

The questionnaire administered at the village-level contains the following sections:

  1. Social norms (marriage norms)
  2. Ethnic and religious compositions
  3. Economic infrastructures (markets and roads)
  4. Social services
    a. Health
    b. Education

The household questionnaire was administered to the head of the household or to an authorized person capable of answering questions about all individuals in the household. The adolescent questionnaire was administered to each eligible pre-selected individual within the household. Considering the modules of the adolescent questionnaire, it was only administered by female enumerators. The village-level questionnaire was administered to a group of three to five village leaders with enough knowledge of the village. The enumerators were instructed to include women in this group whenever possible. The questionnaires were written in French, translated into the local languages, and programmed on tablets in French using the CAPI program.

 

Sample
Format
Series - ongoing
Country
Burkina Faso
Title
Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Initiative 2018 Baseline [Burkina Faso]
Format
Series - ongoing

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