Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Initiative Impact Evaluation - Baseline Survey, 2018
Baseline
Niger, 2018
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NER_2018_SWEDDIE-BL_v01_M
Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Initiative Impact Evaluation - Baseline Survey, 2018
Baseline
NER SWEDD BL 2018
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Niger | NER |
1-2-3 Survey, phase 1 [hh/123-1]
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 Niger. These were (i) safe spaces to empower girls through the provision of life skills and SRH education; (ii) Cash transfer to cover girls’ expenses (transportation cost, food…); (iii) support to income-generating activities (IGA) with the provision of grants and entrepreneurship training 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. The sample comprises 6,387 households and 6,942 girls living in the regions of Dosso, Maradi, Tahouha, Tillabéry and Zinder.
The information gathered from the survey may aid decision makers in the formulation of economic and social policies to:
- reduce fertility and child marriage by improving access to contraceptive methods and improving reproductive health knowledge.
- foster women’s empowerment through enhancing their access to economic activities.
The survey can be an important source of information for planners to know how to improve the quality of people's living standards, in particular women’s living conditions. The Ministry of Women's Promotion and Child Protection of Niger would benefit from the data of this survey, together with other public organizations working on girls and women empowerment and reproductive health. District Authorities, Research Institutions, Non-Governmental Organizations and the general public will also benefit from the survey data.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households, individuals
Version
Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution.
Coverage
Five regions of Niger: Dosso, Maradi, Tahouha, Tillabéry et Zinder.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Élise Huillery | University Paris Dauphine - PSL |
| Bastien Michel | Université de Nantes |
| Mathilde Sage | UCLouvain and UNamur |
| Léa Rouanet | World Bank |
| Estelle Koussoubé | World Bank |
| Name |
|---|
| Claire Boxho |
| Name |
|---|
| The World Bank |
| The Government of Niger |
Sampling
The impact evaluation in Niger includes 6,942 girls across 395 villages located in the regions of Dosso, Maradi, Tahoua, Tillabéry, and Zinder. The evaluation targets two key interventions: Safe Spaces, aimed at out-of-school or never-schooled girls aged 10 to 19, and Future Husbands Clubs, which engage unmarried young men aged 15 to 24 to address gender norms and early marriage. To construct the evaluation sample, the Ministry of Women’s Promotion and Child Protection, the National Institute of Statistics (INS), and UNFPA jointly established a list of 395 villages within the five regions, selected for their high rates of early marriage and low contraceptive prevalence. The number of villages surveyed in each region was determined proportionally to the regional population of girls aged 10 to 19. The selected villages were then randomly assigned to one of four groups: three treatment groups reflecting different intervention combinations or delivery modalities, and a control group receiving no intervention during the study period. This randomized design allows for rigorous measurement of the program’s impact across diverse demographic and geographic contexts.
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 data consists of responses from households to questions pertaining to:
- List of household members
- Education and employment of household members
- Characteristics of housing and durable goods
- Opinions on equality and autonomy
- Religion
The questionnaire administrated to girls contains the following sections:
- Education
- Marriage and children
- Aspirations
- Reproductive health and family planning
- Psycho-social
- Women's empowerment
- Income-generating activities
- Savings and credits
- Personal relationships and social networks
- Mental health
- Religion
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. The questionnaires were written in French and programmed on tablets in French using the CAPI program.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-04 | 2018-05 | 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 |
|---|
| World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab |
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
Example:
Élise Huillery (University Paris Dauphine - PSL), Bastien Michel (Université de Nantes), Mathilde Sage ( UCLouvain and UNamur), Léa Rouanet (World Bank), Estelle Koussoubé (World Bank). Niger - Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Initiative Impact Evaluation - Baseline Survey, 2018, Baseline (NER SWEDD BL 2018). Ref: NER_2018_SWEDDIE-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_NER_2018_SWEDDIE-BL_v01_M_WB
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | DECDG | World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2025-06-30
Metadata version
Version 01 (2025-06-30)