Ad Hoc WEAI Master Data

This is cross-sectional data of 1148 individuals across 585 dual-households collected in 2019. It records the indicators of WEAI construction from selected samples of four states in India for a study on understanding Gender-Nutrition linkages in agrarian households.
Objectives:-
• To explore the levels of women empowerment and nutritional scenarios of the study area in terms of nutritional intake and outcome of population.
• To decompose women’s access to farming decisions by its constituent factors to observe the most important contributor to empowerment.
• Explore the linkages between women’s empowerment within the farming system – its contributory indicators and nutritional outcome and the gender gap in nutrition within households.
The questionnaire collected
1. Indicators of Household Characteristics – socio-economic attributes, demographic composition, and geographical characteristics.
2. All Household Members- age, sex, education, height, weight, occupation, duration of stay in the village, access to social protection schemes. To capture nutritional intake, other than the height and weight of cooperating participants, a standard consumption intake module of the India Human Development Survey and socio-economic characteristics as controls for quantitative analysis were used.
3. Asked only to Women- Indicators of autonomy and empowerment in agriculture (following the indicators in Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index); item-wise consumption of food last 24 hours.
To capture women’s access to productive resources, information was collected to create an Adhoc Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) using Alkire Method (Hazel et al. 2015). Daily dietary consumption data was collected for each individual to construct an Individual level Dietary Diversity Index. The height and weight of members were collected to identify persons with malnutrition in the households. The index of women empowerment was a key predictor along with the geography or agroecological location of the household.