Asset Rights Upon Marriage Dissolution

The Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) initiative aims to broaden and deepen the measurement of women’s agency, based on the development of new tools and rigorous testing and comparison of both new and existing methods for measuring agency, and promoting the adoption of these measures at scale. By increasing the availability of innovative meaningful measures of agency for a broad range of contexts, we hope our work will lead to an improved understanding of what women’s agency is, how it manifests and how it can best be measured across contexts given the research question at hand.</p> Enhancing women’s land rights is an increasingly important goal for governments and policymakers around the world. Frequently, the duration of a woman’s property rights is limited to the time while she is married. To understand a woman’s tenure security, it is necessary to know whether her tenure extends beyond the length of her marriage. The survey questions in this tool, Asset Rights upon Marriage Dissolution, inquire about expectations regarding asset ownership and rights if a couple were to separate, and how the answers may vary by type of asset and mode of acquisition (e.g., purchase together, gifted, or inherited). The questions may be asked about different types of assets such as agricultural land, livestock, etc. To fully understand women’s tenure security in the event of separation, it is useful to have this tool alongside modules that solicit information on individual’s ownership of the asset. </p> This data study includes following files. </p>1. A survey document (including implementation guidelines) </p>2.Two files, CAPI_Choices and CAPI_Survey, along with the accompanying help files, can be used to construct a CAPI program ready for survey implementation. Alternatively, users can use an Excel workbook "CAPI_.xlsx" that includes worksheets for survey and choices, along with help files, for constructing a CAPI program ready for survey implementation.