Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land

dc.creatorKilic, Talip
dc.creatorMoylan, Heather
dc.creatorKoolwal, Gayatri
dc.date2020-02-20T16:18:53Z
dc.date2020-02-20T16:18:53Z
dc.date2020-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:39:01Z
dc.descriptionFoundational 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.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierhttp://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
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/33356
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-9151
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/408302
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9151
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectLAND RIGHTS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subjectRESPONDENT SELECTION
dc.subjectLAND OWNERSHIP
dc.titleGetting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land
dc.titleImpact of Survey Respondent Selection on Measuring Land Ownership and Rights
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
dc.typeDocumento de trabajo

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