Abstract

In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability Index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using Round 7 of the Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions, namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity, and digitalisation. Our findings show that: (i) Botswana performs best while women in Guinea and Sudan are the most vulnerable. Indeed, Mauritius appears as a good example in some dimensions such as health and digitalisation. (ii) Except for the dimension of digitalisation, rural women’s vulnerabilities in other dimensions are very close to those at the national level. (iii) National vulnerability trends strongly explain rural women’s vulnerability especially for the economic, empowerment, and health dimensions.

摘要

在本文中，我们开发了一个名为非洲女性脆弱性指数 (AWVI) 的新指数，重点关注使用第 7 轮非洲晴雨表调查的农村女性。AWVI 包括六个维度的 59 个指标，即：安全、赋权、健康、教育、经济繁荣和数字化。我们的调查结果表明：(i) 博茨瓦纳表现最好，而几内亚和苏丹的妇女最脆弱。事实上，毛里求斯在健康和数字化等某些方面似乎是一个很好的例子。(ii) 除了数字化维度，农村妇女在其他维度的脆弱性与国家层面非常接近。(iii) 国家脆弱性趋势有力地解释了农村妇女的脆弱性，尤其是在经济、赋权和健康方面。