MAISHA Cluster Randomised Trial - Couples Survey Data

The MAISHA study (component A) is a mixed-methods evaluation, including a cluster randomised trial (CRT), of a small group based social empowerment intervention to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Mwanza city, Tanzania. The trial was conducted among women already participating in a group-based microfinance scheme, with the microfinance group being the unit of randomisation and (in the intervention arm) the unit of intervention delivery. The CRT involved two surveys of trial participants (all female): the baseline survey was conducted prior to randomisation, and the follow-up survey conducted 29 months later. The surveys collected data on demographics, childhood experiences of abuse, health, attitudes and norms relating to gender and IPV, relationships, IPV experiences and responses, children, and respondents' interactions with their communities. At follow-up, where women granted permission, male partners were also invited to take part in the male partners survey which covered similar themes to those in the women's survey. This dataset was used in the primary analysis of the male partners survey data. It comprises 1,049 records (each pertaining to one woman and, where applicable, her male partner), and contains a subset of variables from the women's baseline survey, women's follow-up survey and male partner's survey. NB: A second trial of the same MAISHA intervention was conducted among women not receiving microfinance (MAISHA component B). Data pertaining to that trial are not included in this record.