The SWPER index for women's empowerment in Africa: development and validation of an index based on survey data
Background: The Sustainable Development Goals strongly focus on equity. Goal 5 explicitly aims to empower all women and girls, reinforcing the need to have a reliable indicator to track progress. Our objective was to develop a novel women's empowerment indicator from widely available data sourc...
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Main Authors: | Fernanda Ewerling, MSc (Author), Prof John W Lynch, PhD (Author), Prof Cesar G Victora, MD (Author), Anouka van Eerdewijk, PhD (Author), Marcelo Tyszler, PhD (Author), Prof Aluisio J D Barros, MD (Author) |
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2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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