Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Initiative, 2017
Baseline Survey
Mali, 2017
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MLI_2017_SWEDD-BL_v01_M
Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Initiative, 2017
Baseline Survey
SWEDD-BL 2017
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Mali | MLI |
Sample Frame, Households [sf/hh]
The Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (P150080) project is a regional project aiming to accelerate the demographic transition by addressing both supply- and demand-side constraints to family planning and reproductive and sexual health. To achieve its objective, the project targets adolescent girls and young women mainly between the ages of 8 and 24, who are vulnerable to early marriage, teenage pregnancy, and early school drop-out. The project targeted 9 countries of the Sahel and Western Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger) and is expanding in other African countries. The SWEDD is structured into three main components: component 1 seeks to generate demand for reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child health and nutrition products and services; component 2 seeks to improve supply of these products and qualified personnel; and component 3 seeks to strengthen national capacity and policy dialogue.
The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab and its partners are conducting rigorous impact evaluations of key interventions under component 1 to assess their effects on child marriage, fertility, and adolescent girls and young women’s empowerment. The interventions were a set of activities targeting adolescent girls and their communities, designed in collaboration with the government of Côte d’Ivoire. These were (i) safe spaces to empower girls through the provision of life skills and SRH education; (ii) support to income-generating activities (IGA) with the provision of grants and entrepreneurship training; (iii) husbands’ and future husbands’ clubs, providing boys of the community with life skills and SRH education; and finally (iv) community sensitization by religious and village leaders. The latter two have the objective to change restrictive social norms and create an enabling environment for girls’ empowerment.
These data represent the first round of data collection (baseline) for the impact evaluation.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households, individuals
Version
Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution.
2024-05-22
Coverage
Mali, Regions of Kayes, Ségou and Sikasso
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Olivia Bertelli | University Paris-Dauphine, PSL |
| Massa Coulibaly | Groupe de Recherche en Economie Appliquée et Théorique |
| Name |
|---|
| The World Bank |
| The Government of Mali |
Sampling
The baseline sample comprises 8776 households and 7463 girls living in the regions of Kayes, Sikasso and Ségou in Mali. To define the sample, we partnered with INSTAT Mali. At first, INSTAT conducted a census of the population living in the areas around the 49 schools selected by the education focal point that will all benefit from the SWEDD program. Therefore, census activities were concentrated in 287 villages located within a radius of 10/15km around these schools. Eventually, 10 villages had to be dropped due to security reasons. Keeping with the eligibility criteria of surveying villages where there were at least 10 households with a girl aged between 12 and 24 years old, 270 villages were eventually sampled. Households were surveyed before randomization into groups assigned to receive the SWEDD program.
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 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 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 an eligible pre-selected girl within the household. Considering the modules of the adolescent questionnaire, it was only administered by female enumerators. The questionnaires were written in French, translated into Bambara, and programmed on tablets in French using the CAPI program.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-07 | 2017-10 | Baseline |
- Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
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.
Depositor information
| Name |
|---|
| 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
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Olivia Bertelli (University Paris-Dauphine, PSL), Massa Coulibaly (Groupe de Recherche en Economie Appliquée et Théorique). Mali - Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Initiative, 2017, Baseline Survey (SWEDD-BL 2017). Ref: MLI_2017_SWEDD-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_MLI_2017_SWEDD-BL_v01_M_WB
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | DECDG | World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2024-06-18
Metadata version
Version 01 (2024-06-18)