Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Initiative 2018
Baseline
Burkina Faso, 2018
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BFA_2018_SWEDDIE-BL_v01_M
Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Initiative 2018
Baseline
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | BFA |
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey - Round 1 [hh/mics-1]
The Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (P150080) project 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
This data is valuable for planners who focus on improving living standards, particularly for women. The Ministry of Women, National Solidarity, Family, and Humanitarian Action of Burkina Faso, along with District Authorities, Research Institutions, NGOs, and the general public, stand to benefit from this survey data.
Sample survey data [ssd]
The unit of analysis is adolescent girls for the adolescent survey and households for the household survey.
Version
Version 01: Edited data, anonymized and packaged for public distribution.
Coverage
Burkina Faso, Regions of Boucle du Mouhoun and East
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Harounan Kazianga | Oklahoma State University |
| Omer Combary | Université Thomas Sankara |
| Name |
|---|
| The World Bank |
| The Government of Burkina Faso |
| Name |
|---|
| Ministère de la Femme, de la Solidarité Nationale, de la Famille et de l’Action Humanitaire (Burkina Faso) |
Sampling
We randomly selected 200 villages from the 11 provinces in the two regions of the Boucle du Mouhoun and the East. The 200 villages were selected proportionally, based on the formula (Np/N)*200, where Np represents the number of eligible villages in the province and N the total number of eligible villages. 25 villages were later dropped because of lack of safety.
A census was first administered in each village to identify eligible girls and young wives, as well as households with these eligible individuals. All households with at least one eligible person then constituted the universe from which the survey sample was drawn. In total 9857 households and 9382 girls and young wives were sampled. A village-level questionnaire was also administered.
The objective of the baseline survey was to build a comprehensive dataset, which would serve as a reference point for the entire sample, before treatment and control assignment and program implementation.
Survey instrument
The data consists of responses from households to questions pertaining to:
- List of household members
- Education of household members
- Occupations of household members
- Characteristics of housing and durable goods
- Food security
- Household head's aspirations, as well as those of a boy aged 12 to 24
- Opinions on women's empowerment and gender equality
The questionnaire administrated to girls contains the following sections:
- Education
- Marriage and children
- Aspirations
- Health and family planning
- Knowledge of HIV/AIDS
- Women's empowerment
- Gender-based violence
- Income-generating activities
- Savings and credit
- Personal relationships and social networks
- Committee members and community participation
The questionnaire administered at the village-level contains the following sections:
- Social norms (marriage norms)
- Ethnic and religious compositions
- Economic infrastructures (markets and roads)
- 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.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-10 | 2018-11 | Baseline |
- Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
| Name |
|---|
| Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie |
The main mode of data collection was the use of a structured questionnaire. The respondent was provided with coded answers from which to choose. These questionnaires were administered by enumerators who visited the homes of the participating households at a time convenient for the respondents.
Data processing
Data was anonymized through decoding and local suppression.
Depositor information
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| The Africa Gender Innovation Lab | World Bank |
Data Access
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
the Identification of the Primary Investigator
the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
the survey reference number
the source and date of download
Example:
Harounan Kazianga (Oklahoma State University), Omer Combary (Université Thomas Sankara). Burkina Faso - Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Initiative 2018, Baseline Survey (SWEDD-BL 2018). Ref: BFA_2018_SWEDDIE-BL_v01_M. Downloaded from [uri] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Metadata production
DDI_BFA_2018_SWEDDIE-BL_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2024-06-04
Metadata version
Version 01 (June 2024)