Agricultural Self-efficacy Scale

The Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) initiative aims to broaden and deepen the measurement of women’s agency, based on the development of new tools and rigorous testing and comparison of both new and existing methods for measuring agency, and promoting the adoption of these measures at scale. By increasing the availability of innovative meaningful measures of agency for a broad range of contexts, we hope our work will lead to an improved understanding of what women’s agency is, how it manifests and how it can best be measured across contexts given the research question at hand. Improving women’s self-efficacy—that is, their belief in their capabilities to act effectively towards a goal—is an important and urgent policy goal. Despite being the sector that employs most of the labor force across the Global South, how to measure self-efficacy in agricultural activities in low-income countries remains understudied. This 10-item Agricultural Self-efficacy Scale allows us to capture the extent to which individuals believe in their own capacity to reach goals regarding different common activities in agriculture, grounded in McGee et al.’s (2009) framework for measuring entrepreneurial self-efficacy. This scale can be used to assess levels of agricultural self-efficacy in a population, determine which sub-domains of self-efficacy are strongest or weakest (e.g., managing labor or obtaining a loan) as well as to assess the impact of agriculture-related projects. This tool is suited for surveys run by NSOs, other nationally representative individual- or household-level surveys, and for targeted thematic or impact evaluation surveys designed to understand individuals' agency and decision-making. This data study includes following files. 1. A survey document (including implementation guidelines). 2. Two files, CAPI_Choices and CAPI_Survey, along with the accompanying files, can be used to construct a CAPI program ready for survey implementation. Alternatively, users can use an Excel workbook \"CAPI_.xlsx\" that includes worksheets for survey and choices, along with others, for constructing a CAPI program ready for survey implementation.

推进性别平等举措（Measures for Advancing Gender Equality, MAGNET）旨在拓展并深化女性能动性的测量工作，具体通过开发新型测量工具、对新旧能动性测量方法开展严谨测试与对比，并推动这些测量方法的规模化应用。通过为多元场景提供兼具创新性与实践价值的能动性测量方案，本研究期望能够增进学界与实务界对女性能动性的内涵、表现形式，以及在特定研究问题下如何针对不同场景开展最优测量的理解。

提升女性自我效能感——即个体对自身有效达成目标的能力信念——是一项重要且紧迫的政策目标。尽管农业是全球南方地区吸纳劳动力最多的行业，但低收入国家农业活动中自我效能感的测量方法仍未得到充分研究。

本10条目农业自我效能量表以McGee等人（2009）提出的创业自我效能感测量框架为基础，能够捕捉个体对自身完成各类常见农业活动、达成相关目标的能力信念程度。该量表可用于评估人群的农业自我效能感水平，识别自我效能感的强弱子领域（如劳动力管理或贷款获取），同时也可用于评估农业相关项目的实施效果。

本工具适用于国家统计机构（National Statistical Offices, NSOs）、其他具有全国代表性的个人或家庭层面调查，以及旨在了解个体能动性与决策行为的针对性主题调查或影响评估调查。

本数据集包含以下文件：
1. 一份调查文档（含实施指南）。
2. 两份文件：CAPI_Choices与CAPI_Survey，以及配套文件，可用于构建可直接用于调查实施的计算机辅助个人访谈（Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing, CAPI）程序。此外，用户也可使用名为"CAPI_.xlsx"的Excel工作簿，该工作簿包含调查与选项设置等工作表，同样可用于构建可直接投入调查实施的CAPI程序。