What are you talking about? Applying cognitive interviewing to improve survey questions on women’s economic empowerment for market inclusion

Emily Myers, Jessica Heckert, Elizabeth Salazar, Kenan Kalagho, Flora Salamba, Diston Mzungu, Grace Mswero, Adegbola, Patrice Ygué, Geraud Fabrice Crinot, Baudelaire Kouton-Bognon, Audrey Pereira, Deborah Rubin, Hazel J. Malapit and Greg Seymour

No 2192, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Monitoring progress toward women’s empowerment requires tools that reflect its underlying concepts. Cognitive interviewing is a qualitative approach for identifying sources of error in how respondents respond to survey items. This study identifies cognitive errors in survey modules included in the project level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index for Market Inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI) in Benin and Malawi. Comprehension, retrieval, judgment, and response errors were all found to different degrees in the nine modules comprising the survey instrument. There are variations in findings by country context and, to a lesser extent, gender. The findings of this study informed revisions to the pro-WEAI+MI survey instrument and offer insights into how best to design survey modules used for monitoring progress toward gender equality in agricultural value chains and development efforts.

Keywords: value chains; development; gender; gender equality; women's empowerment; methods; surveys; gender-based violence; capacity development; agriculture; market access; errors; women; Benin; Malawi; Western Africa; Southern Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa; Eastern Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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