Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land : Impact of Survey Respondent Selection on Measuring Land Ownership and Rights
Foundational to the monitoring of international goals on land ownership and rights are the household survey respondents who provide the required individual-disaggregated data. Leveraging two national surveys in Malawi that differed in their approach to respondent selection, this study shows tha...
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okr-10986-333562022-09-20T00:13:26Z Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land : Impact of Survey Respondent Selection on Measuring Land Ownership and Rights Kilic, Talip Moylan, Heather Koolwal, Gayatri GENDER LAND RIGHTS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS RESPONDENT SELECTION LAND OWNERSHIP Foundational to the monitoring of international goals on land ownership and rights are the household survey respondents who provide the required individual-disaggregated data. Leveraging two national surveys in Malawi that differed in their approach to respondent selection, this study shows that, compared with the international best practice of privately interviewing adults about their personal asset ownership and rights, the business-as-usual approach of interviewing the most knowledgeable household member(s) on adult household members’ ownership of and rights to assets leads to (i) higher rates of exclusive reported and economic ownership of agricultural land among men, and (ii) lower rates of joint reported and economic ownership among women. Further, substantial agreement exists on agricultural landowners and rights holders, as reported by the privately-interviewed spouses. When discrepancies emerge, proxies for greater household status for women are positively associated with the scenarios where women attribute at least some land ownership to themselves. 2020-02-20T16:18:53Z 2020-02-20T16:18:53Z 2020-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/737001582039166195/Getting-the-Gender-Disaggregated-Lay-of-the-Land-Impact-of-Survey-Respondent-Selection-on-Measuring-Land-Ownership-and-Rights http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33356 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9151 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Malawi |
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GENDER LAND RIGHTS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS RESPONDENT SELECTION LAND OWNERSHIP Kilic, Talip Moylan, Heather Koolwal, Gayatri Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land : Impact of Survey Respondent Selection on Measuring Land Ownership and Rights |
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Foundational to the monitoring of international goals on
land ownership and rights are the household survey respondents
who provide the required individual-disaggregated
data. Leveraging two national surveys in Malawi that differed
in their approach to respondent selection, this study
shows that, compared with the international best practice
of privately interviewing adults about their personal asset
ownership and rights, the business-as-usual approach of
interviewing the most knowledgeable household member(s)
on adult household members’ ownership of and rights to
assets leads to (i) higher rates of exclusive reported and
economic ownership of agricultural land among men, and
(ii) lower rates of joint reported and economic ownership
among women. Further, substantial agreement exists on
agricultural landowners and rights holders, as reported
by the privately-interviewed spouses. When discrepancies
emerge, proxies for greater household status for women
are positively associated with the scenarios where women
attribute at least some land ownership to themselves. |
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Working Paper |
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Kilic, Talip Moylan, Heather Koolwal, Gayatri |
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Kilic, Talip Moylan, Heather Koolwal, Gayatri |
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Kilic, Talip |
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Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land : Impact of Survey Respondent Selection on Measuring Land Ownership and Rights |
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Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land : Impact of Survey Respondent Selection on Measuring Land Ownership and Rights |
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Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land : Impact of Survey Respondent Selection on Measuring Land Ownership and Rights |
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Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land : Impact of Survey Respondent Selection on Measuring Land Ownership and Rights |
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Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land : Impact of Survey Respondent Selection on Measuring Land Ownership and Rights |
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getting the (gender-disaggregated) lay of the land : impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2020 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/737001582039166195/Getting-the-Gender-Disaggregated-Lay-of-the-Land-Impact-of-Survey-Respondent-Selection-on-Measuring-Land-Ownership-and-Rights http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33356 |
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