The Survey-based Women’s emPowERment Index (SWPER) is an index based on nationally representative and publically available Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from African countries to enable within-country and between-country comparisons, as well as time trend analyses.
Developed by:
Fernanda Eweling, John W Lynch, Cesar G Victora, Anouka van Eerdewijk, Marcelo Tyszler, Aluisio J D Barros
Measure domains:
Attitude to Violence
Social Independence
Decision Making
Social Independence
Decision Making
Items and subscales:
15 items
3 subscales
3 subscales
Outcomes predicted:
Modern contraceptive use
Institutional delivery
Prevalence of stunting- last born child
Institutional delivery
Prevalence of stunting- last born child
Study population(s):
Most recent DHS data on partered women, ages 15-49, from 34 African countries
Additional information:
Analyzed correlations with the Gender and Development Index for external validation
Measure validated?:
Y
Link(s) to Validation Study and/or Measure:
Citation of original article
Get citationEwerling, F., Lynch, J. W., Victora, V. G., van Eerdewijk, A., Tyszler, M., & Barros, A. J. D. (2017). The SWPER index for women’s empowerment in Africa: Development and validation of an index based on survey data. The Lancet Global Health, 5(9), e916–e923. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30292-9.