Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Ethiopia Round 4, 2022-2023

<div><span style="font-style: italic;">Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence</span> (GAGE) is a ten-year (2015-2025) research programme, funded by UK Aid from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), that seeks to combine longitudinal data collection and a mixed-methods approach to understand the lives of adolescents in particularly marginalized regions of the Global South, and to uncover 'what works' to support the development of their capabilities over the course of the second decade of life, when many of these individuals will go through key transitions such as finishing their education, starting to work, getting married and starting to have children.</div><div><br></div><div>GAGE undertakes longitudinal research in seven countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Rwanda), Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal) and the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine). Sampling adolescent girls and boys aged between 10‐19‐year olds, the quantitative survey follows a global total of 18,000 adolescent girls and boys, and their caregivers and explores the effects that programme have on their lives. This is substantiated by in‐depth qualitative and participatory research with adolescents and their peers. Its policy and legal analysis work stream studies the processes of policy change that influence the investment in and effectiveness of adolescent programming.</div><br>Further information, including publications, can be found on the Overseas Development Institute <a href="https://www.gage.odi.org/" target="_blank">GAGE</a> website. <br><br>
<p>This survey extends the<span style="font-style: italic;"> Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE)</span> quantitative research in Ethiopia for a fourth round. A sample of 6,778 adolescent boys and girls was sought, all of whom had been sought in previous data collection rounds, and 6,437 were interviewed. The main purpose of this survey was to gather information on the lives of Ethiopian adolescents living in urban and rural locations in the Amhara and Oromiya regions, to understand their changing lives and challenges and to evaluate adolescent-centric interventions there. At the time of data collection, adolescents were primarily aged 11-20. The sample includes both randomly and purposefully sampled adolescents. The current data release includes information for the subset of individuals who are not part of an ongoing randomized evaluation of adolescent-centric programming. A total of 2,331 adolescent surveys are included in the current release.</p>