Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition (WEN) Survey 2024

The 2024 Women's Empowerment and Nutrition (WEN) questionnaire encompasses multiple topics: time use and agency; community participation and leadership; financial services and credit; property ownership and tenure security; decision-making and control over income; ICT access and use; women's dietary diversity (MDD-W). The CAPI instrument contained automated quality checks and skip patterns. The questionnaire was organized in ten modules:
·Module D - Paid and Unpaid Activities. Captures time use in the last seven days: household chores, care work, market activities, paid work, farming (subsistence and commercial), leisure, religious/cultural events, learning. It records decision-making power over how much time respondents dedicate to each activity.
·Module E - Participation and Leadership in Community. Assesses participation in and leadership of different community groups (government, service, financial, livelihood, and religious/social groups). Gender-specific perception questions:
oFor women: perceptions of women's ability to participate and be heard in the community.
oFor men: same but framed around men's participation.
·Module F - Life Transitions and Awareness of Rights (Women only). Measures women's agreement with rights-based statements (education, work, income use, property ownership, marriage/divorce, childbearing decisions). Captures attitudes toward women's autonomy across life transitions.
·Module G - Financial Services and Credit. Records use of financial services in the past 12 months (mobile money, bank account, ATM, credit card). Assesses access to loans from formal (banks, cooperatives, microfinance) and informal (savings groups, moneylenders, NGOs) institutions.
·Module H - Property Ownership. Measures ownership and rights to agricultural land and dwellings. Asks about ability to sell, bequeath, or document property rights. Captures security of tenure by asking for the likelihood of involuntary loss.
·Module I - Decision-Making and Control over Income. Assesses individual influence over use of household money (own and others'), major household purchases, decisions on personal healthcare.
·Module J - Information Communication Technologies (ICT). Measures frequency of use of mobile phones, internet and social media platforms.
·Module L - Sexual Harassment (Women only). Captures attitudes on acceptability of different forms of harassment: verbal disrespect, work restrictions, rumor-spreading unwanted romantic/sexual advances and exchange of work benefits for sexual favors. Asked in private, ensuring no one could overhear the questions.
·Module M - Food and Drinks Consumed in Last 24 Hours (Women only). 24-hour dietary recall to measure Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W). Lists food groups (cereals, roots/tubers, legumes, nuts, dairy, meat/fish, eggs, leafy greens, vegetables, fruits, oils/fats, sweets, beverages, insects). Provides standardized recall for comparability across individuals.
·Module N - Information on Respondent. Records literacy, schooling history, and highest education level.
·Module O - Result of the Interview. Enumerators report whether the interview was private, completion status, reasons for partial or incomplete interviews.