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Measuring Youth Empowerment (English)

Despite advances in the measurement of women’s empowerment, its demonstrated relevance for a range of demographic, social, and health outcomes, and salience of empowerment in young women’s lives, the study of the empowerment among youth has been stymied by the lack of validated quantitative measures and widely available data. The present study aims to fill this gap by exploring the feasibility of developing a measure of youth empowerment using data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This study uses data from 10 phase 7 DHS surveys in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to develop and valid…