This model aims to assess the impact of contraceptive use on the empowerment of women aged 15 to 49, using recent longitudinal PMA data and sequential analysis. The model will focus on three West African countries (Burkina Faso, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire) and two East African countries (Uganda and Kenya). In all these countries, longitudinal data have been collected on the PMA platform, covering four years of contraceptive use and two years of empowerment (via three surveys in 2019, 2020, 2021). Sequential analysis will be employed to summarize contraceptive trajectories using the R package TraMineR. Sequence analysis will integrate information on episodes of contraceptive use, pregnancies, and births to identify patterns of contraceptive use. We will create a fictive cohort based on the longitudinal data collected in PMA to assess the increase in empowerment at each specific age between 15 and 49, using the difference-in-differences method. We will consider different dimensions of women's empowerment (decision-making and schooling/economic activity). The model will control for other relevant independent variables such as education, place of residence, marital status, parity, and household wealth. We will investigate differences in the impact of contraception on empowerment across countries, as well as based on access (service provision in the region). Analyzing access - in addition to use - will allow us to implement a human rights perspective when assessing the impact of family planning on empowerment.
Project team:
- Principal Investigator: Prof. Georges Guiella (ISSP, University Joseph Ky Zerbo, Burkina Faso)
- Co-investigator: Prof. Clementine Rossier (IDESO, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
- Statistician: Prof. Matthias Studer (IDESO, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
- Statistician and demographer: Dr. Lonkila Moussa Zan (ISSP, University Joseph Ky-Zerbo, Burkina Faso)
- Research assistant: Dao Oumarou (ISSP, University Joseph Ky-Zerbo, Burkina Faso)
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