WEAI: Stata module to compute different versions of the Women's Empowerment in Agricultural Index (WEAI)

Malick Dione (), Greg Seymour, Nathaniel Ferguson () and Hazel Jean Malapit
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Malick Dione: International Food Policy Research Institute
Nathaniel Ferguson: International Food Policy Research Institute

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a standardized, survey-based tool that has been widely used to track gender equality and measure empowerment, agency, and women's inclusion in the agricultural sector (Alkire et al. 2013). Since the WEAI's release in 2012, an abbreviated version of the WEAI (referred to as A-WEAI) and project-level version of the WEAI (referred to as pro-WEAI) have been developed (Malapit et al. 2017; Malapit et al. 2019). Depending on the options specified by the user, weai is capable of computing all versions of the WEAI. weai allows for flexibility in the specification of the binary adequacy indicators, empowerment cutoff, and indicator weights. weai provides a decomposition by indicator and, when specified, by sub-groups. Note that because the WEAI requires data from women and men, users are required to specify a variable (and values) identifying the sex of respondents.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 14
Keywords: WEAI; empowerment; agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-01-16
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install weai". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/weai.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/weai.sthlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/weai_examples.do sample do-file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/scheme-weai.scheme scheme file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/weai_examples.dta sample data set (application/x-stata)

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