Guides and Instruments

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This guide highlights the key women’s empowerment measurement tools IFPRI has developed, including links to core resources and evidence of how each tool has been applied

Below are the most up-to-date versions of the quantitative and qualitative instruments, and Stata do-files for the different WEAI versions. A comparative table of the different WEAI versions is available here (PDF 108KB). Scroll further down for a list of instruments by project (if available).

By WEAI version:

	Guides and manuals	Quantitative instruments & CAPI codes	Stata code for calculating WEAI (do-files)	Qualitative instruments
WEAI	WEAI instructional guide WEAI cognitive testing guide WEAI tables with instructions WEAI intervention Guide	Original WEAI questionnaire (2012) Updated WEAI questionnaire (2016)	Dataprep and WEAI calculation
A-WEAI	A-WEAI enumerator manual A-WEAI instructional guide	A-WEAI questionnaire	Dataprep and A-WEAI calculation Calculate A-WEAI from pro-WEAI
Pro-WEAI	[Updated] Pro-WEAI enumerator manual [Updated] Pro-WEAI glossary [Updated Pro-WEAI user guide	Pro-WEAI questionnaire Pro-WEAI questionnaire (core only) Pro-WEAI SurveyCTO	Dataprep do file Dataprep do file (core only) [Updated] WEAI ado files *ADVANCED users* (pro-WEAI calculation, tables + charts do files with survey weights and std errors)	GAAP2 qualitative protocols
Pro-WEAI for Market Inclusion		Pro-WEAI+MI questionnaire		Qualitative protocols (English & Chichewa) Qualitative protocols (French)
Pro-WEAI for Health and Nutrition	Guide to +HN indicator construction and cutoffs	[Updated] +HN questionnaire

WEAI ado files

The WEAI ado files (available for download above) provide the Stata command for calculating measures from the WEAI family of tools, including WEAI, A-WEAI, and pro-WEAI. The ado package streamlines index construction and generates scores, sub-indices, and diagnostic outputs using standardized procedures. Detailed documentation and examples are available in Calculating the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) Using Stata (Dione et al. 2024). A companion blog post highlighting key features and applications of the ado files is forthcoming.

WEAI replication files

The replication files for our article “Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI)” are now publicly available on Dataverse. This data package contains baseline data from five GAAP2 projects and Stata.do files necessary for replicating the results of the article. The data include all items needed to calculate pro-WEAI, as well as the basic demographic information (gender and household type) used in the analysis. To execute the replication, use the “read me document” that will take you step-by-step through the process. Anyone can access these files here. The questionnaire used to collect the data can be found here.