Women's Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)

The Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) is a streamlined tool for measuring empowerment. It is intended for use in large-scale, multitopic surveys in both rural and urban areas and is relevant across a wide range of livelihood strategies. WEMNS was developed by the In...

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Autores principales: International Food Policy Research Institute, Emory University, World Bank, Oxford University, National Statistical Office, Malawi, Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA) Limited, Vox Latina, Guatemala, Interdisciplinary Analysts, Nepal
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145279
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Emory University
World Bank
Oxford University
National Statistical Office, Malawi
Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA) Limited
Vox Latina, Guatemala
Interdisciplinary Analysts, Nepal
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Emory University
Interdisciplinary Analysts, Nepal
International Food Policy Research Institute
National Statistical Office, Malawi
Oxford University
Vox Latina, Guatemala
World Bank
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Emory University
World Bank
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National Statistical Office, Malawi
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description The Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) is a streamlined tool for measuring empowerment. It is intended for use in large-scale, multitopic surveys in both rural and urban areas and is relevant across a wide range of livelihood strategies. WEMNS was developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Emory University, Oxford University, and the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study Unit in collaboration with country partners in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Malawi, and Nepal . This work was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development. WEMNS has 12 indicators mapped to one of four domains: Intrinsic agency, instrumental agency, collective agency, and agency-enabling resources. WEMNS is calculated using a counting-based methodology: Respondents are first identified to be either adequate or inadequate in each indicator with respect to a specified threshold, and then they are identified as empowered or disempowered based on the number of indicators in which they achieve adequacy. The exact number of indicators required to be considered “empowered” will be determined once WEMNS has been piloted at scale. Aggregation of indicators in WEMNS is simple: Each of the four domains are equally weighted, and within those domains, each indicator is equally weighted. However, because women’s experience of empowerment—and their critical consciousness related to four of the indicators—is very different from men’s, only eight of the 12 indicators are used to calculate men’s empowerment. An advantage of WEMNS is its decomposability, allowing researchers and policymakers to see to what extent each indicator contributes to disempowerment.
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spelling CGSpace1452792025-01-08T19:40:24Z Women's Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) International Food Policy Research Institute Emory University World Bank Oxford University National Statistical Office, Malawi Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA) Limited Vox Latina, Guatemala Interdisciplinary Analysts, Nepal women's empowerment equality leadership legal rights ownership decision making information and communication technologies sexual violence agricultural production gender poverty The Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) is a streamlined tool for measuring empowerment. It is intended for use in large-scale, multitopic surveys in both rural and urban areas and is relevant across a wide range of livelihood strategies. WEMNS was developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Emory University, Oxford University, and the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study Unit in collaboration with country partners in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Malawi, and Nepal . This work was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development. WEMNS has 12 indicators mapped to one of four domains: Intrinsic agency, instrumental agency, collective agency, and agency-enabling resources. WEMNS is calculated using a counting-based methodology: Respondents are first identified to be either adequate or inadequate in each indicator with respect to a specified threshold, and then they are identified as empowered or disempowered based on the number of indicators in which they achieve adequacy. The exact number of indicators required to be considered “empowered” will be determined once WEMNS has been piloted at scale. Aggregation of indicators in WEMNS is simple: Each of the four domains are equally weighted, and within those domains, each indicator is equally weighted. However, because women’s experience of empowerment—and their critical consciousness related to four of the indicators—is very different from men’s, only eight of the 12 indicators are used to calculate men’s empowerment. An advantage of WEMNS is its decomposability, allowing researchers and policymakers to see to what extent each indicator contributes to disempowerment. 2024-01-12 2024-06-15T02:33:37Z 2024-06-15T02:33:37Z Dataset https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145279 en https://www.ifpri.org/blog/developing-womens-empowerment-metric-national-statistical-systems https://www.ifpri.org/blog/introducing-womens-empowerment-metric-national-statistical-systems-wemns Open Access International Food Policy Research Institute International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Emory University; World Bank; Oxford University; National Statistical Office, Malawi; Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA) Limited; Vox Latina, Guatemala; Interdisciplinary Analysts, Nepal. 2023. Women's Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS). Washington, DC: IFPRI [Survey Tool]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FWWLLG. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.
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equality
leadership
legal rights
ownership
decision making
information and communication technologies
sexual violence
agricultural production
gender
poverty
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World Bank
Oxford University
National Statistical Office, Malawi
Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA) Limited
Vox Latina, Guatemala
Interdisciplinary Analysts, Nepal
Women's Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)
title Women's Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)
title_full Women's Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)
title_fullStr Women's Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)
title_full_unstemmed Women's Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)
title_short Women's Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)
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topic women's empowerment
equality
leadership
legal rights
ownership
decision making
information and communication technologies
sexual violence
agricultural production
gender
poverty
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