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Day 2. What to Measure

Day 2. What to Measure. What to Measure?. By sex of individual List of assets to include Type of ownership Value of assets. What Types of Information do we Want to Measure?. More complete information on household assets for SNA. The gender asset and wealth gaps.

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Day 2. What to Measure

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  1. Day 2. What to Measure

  2. What to Measure? • By sex of individual • List of assets to include • Type of ownership • Value of assets

  3. What Types of Information do we Want to Measure? • More complete information on household assets for SNA. • The gender asset and wealth gaps. • Women’s asset ownership to understand women’s empowerment. • What are the other measures that are relevant for policy?

  4. Comparability across countries • To what extent do we want all surveys to ask the same questions? • To what extent should they reflect the local context? • What is the appropriate level for comparability? One set of core assets across all countries? With others added as relevant?

  5. Measures of the Gender Asset & Wealth Gaps 1) Form of Ownership – identifies the owner of each asset 2) Gender asset gap: Incidence % of women (or men) who are owners 3) Share of Owners: % of owners who are women 4) Gender wealth gap: Share of asset value

  6. Which assets to include? Criteria for choosing: High value items Productive assets Those important to different groups: Men, women, rural, urban, rich, poor Those within the SNA asset boundary

  7. Possible Types of Assets to Include: • Housing • Land • Livestock • Agricultural Equipment • Non-household enterprise • Household non-farm enterprises • Consumer durables and valuables • Financial assets & Liabilities

  8. How to define & measure ownership? Reported ownership – Do you own? Documented owner – Is your name on ownership document? Rights – including right to sell, bequeath, mortgage, improve, rent out, keep revenue Decision-making – decides use, sales, etc. Management – Land holder Economic owner – from SNA

  9. Individual vs. Joint Ownership • Ownership may be by an individual, a couple, other adults, a kinship group. • Patterns of joint vs. individual ownership vary widely across countries and assets.

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