… are progressing in efforts to achieve gender equality (SDG 5), … develop a women’s
empowerment index for Tanzania and to assess its evolution across three demographic and health …

… , where the Demographic and Health Survey reports … development of novel women's
empowerment indicators and those that analysed the association between women's empowerment …

… These surveys are used to collect health and population data worldwide—including … Emory
University developed a women’s empowerment index specific to the Tanzania livestock sector…

… representing different women's empowerment measure as shown in Table 1. Economic …
decision control in Burundi and self-esteem in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania may support …

… goal of this study was therefore to develop a valid measure of women's empowerment both
generalizable to sub-Saharan Africa and robust enough to develop region-specific indicators. …

… -based women’s empowerment index (SWPER) was developed … Demographic and Health
Surveys (DHS) are a reliable … characteristics, health, and development indicators in the …

… Future studies should collect more empowerment indicators and continue to test for
measurement invariance across contexts. Common measurement, validation, and analysis …

… This study used data from the most recent Demographic Health … developed by Amartya Sen
[24] and later adapted to health … Table 2 describes the empowerment indicators of women at …

… Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are the most widely … We used DHS data from
Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania… invariance of a women’s empowerment measure given the …

… A Composite Empowerment Index (CEI) was created using these data to gauge the degree
… in the general population health. Despite this development, some 830 women still die …