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Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents Impact Evaluation Survey 2013-2016
Baseline and Endline, Survey of Community Leaders and ELA Mentors

Sierra Leone, 2013 - 2016
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SLE_2013-2016_ELAIE_v01_M
Producer(s)
Innovations for Poverty Action
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    SLE_2013-2016_ELAIE_v01_M
    Title

    Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents Impact Evaluation Survey 2013-2016
    Subtitle

    Baseline and Endline, Survey of Community Leaders and ELA Mentors
    Abbreviation or Acronym

    ELAIE 2013-16
    Country
    Name Country code
    Sierra Leone SLE
    Study type

    Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
    Series Information

    This study includes baseline and endline survey data collected for a randomized control trial testing impacts of club-based program designed to lift barriers to socio-economic empowerment faced by young women in rural Sierra Leone. The program offers a safe space, the ELA club, set up within each village and accessible only to club memebers - young women aged 12 to 25. In addition, clubs offered a bundle of additional programs: Life Skills training, vocational training and microfinance.

    The impact evaluation coincided with the lockdowns that took place during Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

    The datasets are used to generate the publication 'Safe Spaces for Teenage Girls in a Time of Crisis' that is published at the Journal of the European Economic Association. The replication package published by the journal contains the Stata code necessary to clean the raw data and reproduce the paper's exhibits.

    Third party data was also used in the analysis. While not distributed here with the survey data, this secondary data and details on how to access it are provided in the paper's replication package.
    Abstract

    The project includes: (i) census of 200 rural villages (2013) ; (ii) baseline survey of women aged 12-25 years old, collected week before the first Ebola case in Sierra Leone (2014); (iii) phone survey of community leaders to monitor disruptions during Ebola crisis (2015); (iv) phone survey of ELA mentors to monitor club functioning (2015); (v) endline survey, after the country was declared Ebola-free (2016).
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Young women, village

    Version

    Version Description

    Version 01: Edited, anonymized dataset for public distribution.
    Version Date

    2025-03-18

    Scope

    Notes

    The Sierra Leone Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents Impact Evaluation Survey covered the following topics:

    ELA - Village Household Census

    • Demographics
    • Household roster
    • Village summary sheet

    Baseline

    • Identification
    • Education
    • Income generating activities
    • Skill status
    • Financial literacy and analytical ability
    • Loans and savings
    • Economic decision-making
    • Aspirations and expectations
    • Marriage and family
    • Confidence, attitudes, mobility, and satisfaction
    • Time use
    • likelihood of participating in the program
    • Exposure to violence
    • Risky behaviors
    • Sexual behaviors
    • Household information
    • Daily functioning
    • Data accuracy

    Community Leader

    • Identification
    • Ethnic and religious details
    • Public services and facilities
    • Connectivity
    • Major employers
    • Village NGOs and MFIs
    • Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents
    • Social groups
    • Governance and chieftaincy
    • Ebola sensitization and communication
    • Ebola indirect impacts
    • Ebola direct impacts
    • Ebola response efforts
    • Village history (negative events, excluding Ebola)
    • Civil war
    • Post-interview

    Monitoring

    • BRAC club
    • Mentorship
    • Club activities
    • Migration

    Endline

    • Identification
    • Migration history
    • Education
    • Income generating activities
    • Literacy, numeracy and non-standard skills
    • Loans, savings and cash transfers
    • Expenditures and assets
    • Aspirations and expectations
    • Trust and social cohesion
    • Sexual behaviors
    • Marriage, relationships and pregnancies
    • Entrepreneurial self-confidence
    • Domestic violence
    • BRAC ELA club
    • Time use
    • Networks - family ties
    • Networks - friends
    • Networks - IGAs
    • Networks - intimate topics
    • Networks - credit/finance
    • Household information
    • Family links and status
    • Daily functioning
    • Ebola
    • Civil war
    • Analytical ability (Raven test)
    • Data accuracy

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey covered 200 rural villages in the districts of Kambia, Moyamba, Pujehun, and Port Loko.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Innovations for Poverty Action

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    Random sample of eligible girls and young women in study communities.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The questionnaires are provided for download in English.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2014-02 2014-05 Baseline
    2016-02 2016-05 Endline
    2013-10 2013-11 Census
    2015-06 2015-10 Monitoring survey
    Mode of data collection
    • Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    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 Document ID

    DDI_SLE_2013-2016_ELAIE_v01_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group DECDG World Bank Documentation of the survey
    Date of Metadata Production

    2025-04-09

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (April 2025)
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