{"doc_desc":{"title":"Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) Impact Evaluation","idno":"DDI_SLE_2013-2016_ELAIE_v01_M_WB","producers":[{"name":"Development Data Group","abbr":"DECDG","affiliation":"World Bank","role":"Documentation of the survey"}],"prod_date":"2025-04-09","version_statement":{"version":"Version 01 (April 2025)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"SLE_2013-2016_ELAIE_v01_M","title":"Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents Impact Evaluation Survey 2013-2016","sub_title":"Baseline and Endline, Survey of Community Leaders and ELA Mentors","alternate_title":"ELAIE 2013-16"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Innovations for Poverty Action","affiliation":""}],"series_statement":{"series_name":"Other Household Survey [hh\/oth]","series_info":"This study includes baseline and endline survey data collected for a randomized control trial testing impacts of club-based program designed to lift barriers to socio-economic empowerment faced by young women in rural Sierra Leone. The program offers a safe space, the ELA club, set up within each village and accessible only to club memebers - young women aged 12 to 25. In addition, clubs offered a bundle of additional programs: Life Skills training, vocational training and microfinance.\n\nThe impact evaluation coincided with the lockdowns that took place during Ebola epidemic in West Africa.\n\nThe datasets are used to generate the publication 'Safe Spaces for Teenage Girls in a Time of Crisis' that is published at the Journal of the European Economic Association. The replication package published by the journal contains the Stata code necessary to clean the raw data and reproduce the paper's exhibits.\n\nThird party data was also used in the analysis. While not distributed here with the survey data, this secondary data and details on how to access it are provided in the paper's replication package."},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 01: Edited, anonymized dataset for public distribution.","version_date":"2025-03-18"},"study_info":{"abstract":"The project includes: (i) census of 200 rural villages (2013) ; (ii) baseline survey of women aged 12-25 years old, collected week before the first Ebola case in Sierra Leone (2014); (iii) phone survey of community leaders to monitor disruptions during Ebola crisis (2015); (iv) phone survey of ELA mentors to monitor club functioning (2015); (v) endline survey, after the country was declared Ebola-free (2016).","coll_dates":[{"start":"2014-02","end":"2014-05","cycle":"Baseline"},{"start":"2016-02","end":"2016-05","cycle":"Endline"},{"start":"2013-10","end":"2013-11","cycle":"Census"},{"start":"2015-06","end":"2015-10","cycle":"Monitoring survey"}],"nation":[{"name":"Sierra Leone","abbreviation":"SLE"}],"geog_coverage":"The survey covered 200 rural villages in the districts of Kambia, Moyamba, Pujehun, and Port Loko.","analysis_unit":"Young women, village","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The Sierra Leone Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents Impact Evaluation Survey covered the following topics:\n\nELA - Village Household Census\n- Demographics\n- Household roster\n- Village summary sheet\n\nBaseline\n- Identification\n- Education\n- Income generating activities\n- Skill status\n- Financial literacy and analytical ability\n- Loans and savings\n- Economic decision-making\n- Aspirations and expectations\n- Marriage and family\n- Confidence, attitudes, mobility, and satisfaction\n- Time use\n- likelihood of participating in the program\n- Exposure to violence\n- Risky behaviors\n- Sexual behaviors\n- Household information\n- Daily functioning\n- Data accuracy\n\nCommunity Leader\n- Identification\n- Ethnic and religious details\n- Public services and facilities\n- Connectivity\n- Major employers\n- Village NGOs and MFIs\n- Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents\n- Social groups\n- Governance and chieftaincy\n- Ebola sensitization and communication\n- Ebola indirect impacts\n- Ebola direct impacts\n- Ebola response efforts\n- Village history (negative events, excluding Ebola)\n- Civil war\n- Post-interview\n\nMonitoring\n- BRAC club\n- Mentorship\n- Club activities\n- Migration\n\nEndline\n- Identification\n- Migration history\n- Education\n- Income generating activities\n- Literacy, numeracy and non-standard skills\n- Loans, savings and cash transfers\n- Expenditures and assets\n- Aspirations and expectations\n- Trust and social cohesion\n- Sexual behaviors\n- Marriage, relationships and pregnancies\n- Entrepreneurial self-confidence\n- Domestic violence\n- BRAC ELA club\n- Time use\n- Networks - family ties\n- Networks - friends\n- Networks - IGAs\n- Networks - intimate topics\n- Networks - credit\/finance\n- Household information\n- Family links and status\n- Daily functioning\n- Ebola\n- Civil war\n- Analytical ability (Raven test)\n- Data accuracy"},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"Random sample of eligible girls and young women in study communities.","coll_mode":["Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]"],"research_instrument":"The questionnaires are provided for download in English."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"disclaimer":"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."}}},"schematype":"survey","tags":[{"tag":"DOI"}]}