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Quantitative datasets from the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) baseline study with core respondents and their caregivers from Bangladesh (Dhaka), Ethiopia, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Nepal are publicly archived and available to download from the UK Data Archive. The datasets are accompanied by the documentation and questionnaires for each survey round.

Bangladesh

https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8594

The Bangladesh-Dhaka Baseline, 2017-2018 includes a sample of 780 adolescent girls and boys in two separate cohorts (younger adolescents aged 10–12 years and older adolescents aged 15–17 years) as well as their caregivers and communities. The research sample, composed of both randomly sampled and purposely selected adolescents and their families, was recruited during 2017 and 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The main topics covered are: Adult Female dataset, Core Respondent dataset, and the Adult Male dataset.

The documentation is available on the documentation page.

https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8750

The Cox's Bazar Panel Survey (CBPS) is a comprehensive, large-sample survey that tracks both host and refugee households over time in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh – the site of one of the world's largest refugee camps. The Baseline survey is intended to be the first round of a multi-year panel survey.

The Cox’s Bazar Panel Survey: Baseline, 2019 consists of two sections:

1. A household interview (HH) conducted with one adult household member covering household roster, food security, consumption, assistance, assets, household income, and anthropometrics of one randomly selected child under five.

2. An adult interview conducted with two randomly selected adults covering labour market outcomes, migration, crime and conflict, and health.

The survey documentation is available on the Baseline study documentation page.

The fieldwork for this Baseline survey was completed between March and August 2019, with data archived in February 2021.

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The main purpose of Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Bangladesh Chittagong-Sylhet Cross Section, 2018 was to gather information on the lives of school-going adolescents living in nine districts across Chittagong division (Brahmnbaria, Chandpur, Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Rangamati) and Sylhet division (Habiganj, Maulvibazaar, Sunamgani and Sylhet). The sample primarily comprised school-going adolescents attending grade 6 in 2018, across 132 schools. This included a purposeful sample of adolescents who had dropped out of school and of adolescents with disabilities. Interviews were also conducted with the adolescent’s adult female caregiver (1,747 surveys) and, for about a third of the adolescents, an adult male caregiver (449 surveys). Time period: March to June 2018. Method of data collection: face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI).

The survey documentation is available on the study page.

The Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Bangladesh Chittagong and Sylhet Baseline, 2020 includes a sample of 2,220 girls and boys aged 10–18, as well as their female caregivers. The research sample, composed of randomly selected adolescents and their families, was recruited during February and March 2020 from adolescents attending grades 7 and 8 across 109 government and monthly-pay-order (MPO) schools in the Chittagong and Sylhet divisions of Bangladesh. The sample serves as baseline data for a randomised controlled trial evaluating two interventions that were virtually delivered during Covid-19-related school closures: (1) a gender-neutral Growth Mindset (GM) programming around malleable intelligence; and (2) Girl Rising (GR) programming that focuses on gender norms around girls' education that is layered on top of the GM programming.

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Bangladesh Chittagong and Sylhet Round 2, 2022 includes a sample of 2,027 girls and boys aged 12-19. The research sample, composed of randomly selected adolescents and their families, was recruited during February and March 2020 from adolescents attending grades 7 and 8, across 109 government and monthly-pay-order (MPO) schools in the Chittagong and Sylhet Divisions of Bangladesh.

Ethiopia

The survey documentation is available on the Baseline study documentation page.

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Ethiopia baseline, 2017-2018 includes a sample of nearly 7,000 adolescent girls and boys in two separate cohorts (younger adolescents aged 10–12 years and older adolescents aged 15–17 years at the time of baseline data collection), as well as their caregivers and communities. The research sample, composed of both randomly sampled and purposely selected adolescents and their families, was recruited during 2017 and 2018 from urban and rural areas of Ethiopia. Further information about the research site, sample selection, and data collection process is available in the documentation.

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Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Ethiopia Round 2, 2019-2020 extends the GAGE quantitative research in Ethiopia for a second round. A sample of nearly 8,600 adolescent boys and girls was sought, including nearly 7,000 adolescents surveyed in an earlier baseline round (available from the UK Data Archive under study number 8597), as well as approximately 1,600 new adolescents. The main purpose of this survey was to gather information on the lives of Ethiopian adolescents living in urban and rural locations in Amhara, Oromiya and Afar regions, and to understand their changing lives and challenges. At the time of data collection, adolescents were primarily aged 12–14 years and 17–19 years. The sample includes both randomly and purposely sampled adolescents, and their female caregivers were also surveyed where possible. The current data release includes information for the subset of individuals who are not part of an ongoing randomised evaluation of adolescent-centric programming. A total of nearly 5,000 adolescents and their caregivers are included in the current release.

Nepal

The survey documentation is available on the Baseline study documentation page.

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Nepal Baseline, 2017-2018 includes a sample of 1,687 girls aged 12–14 years in 40 randomly selected clusters within two districts of Nepal. This sample includes 580 girls enrolled in grade 6 and followed to grade 8, who will help to evaluate the impact of the Room to Read girls' education programme. The research sample, composed of both randomly sampled and purposely selected adolescents and their families, was recruited during 2017 and 2018 in the regions of Nuwakot and Tanahun.

Jordan

The fieldwork for this Baseline survey was completed between July and September 2018, with data archived in October 2020.

The survey documentation is available on the Baseline study documentation page.

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Jordan Baseline, 2018-2019 recruited a sample of 4,101 adolescent girls and boys in two separate cohorts (younger adolescents aged 10–12 years and older adolescents aged 15–18 years at baseline). GAGE surveyed the adolescents, as well as their adult female caregiver and, for those enrolled in formal schooling, conducted surveys at their schools. This sample includes Syrian refugees living in refugee camps, informal tented settlements (ITS) and host communities, as well as Palestinian refugees living in refugee camps and host communities, vulnerable Jordanian adolescents living in communities hosting refugees, and a small group of adolescents of other nationalities (Egyptian, Iraqi, and others) living in Jordan. The research sample was recruited during 2018 and 2019.

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Jordan Baseline School Survey, 2019-2020 contains data collected at baseline from an additional survey conducted in adolescents' communities, which focused on formal primary and secondary schools. Specific schools attended by core respondents were identified and linked based on the details collected from the Core Respondent Baseline Survey. Where schools consented to participate, questionnaires were administered to a key school informant, such as the principal or headteacher, in September 2019 through to January 2020.

Covid-19 survey

The fieldwork for this Baseline survey was completed between October 2018 and March 2019, with data archived in November 2021.

Cross-country

The Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Covid-19 Phone Survey, 2020-2021 was designed to follow up with cohorts of adolescents in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Jordan to learn about household and adolescent experiences of the pandemic. The survey also includes a cross-sectional sample of adolescents in the State of Palestine. The survey was conducted over two rounds, in mid-2020 (Covid-R1) and late-2020 through early 2021 (Covid-R2). The survey aims to understand the knowledge, attitudes, and behavioural changes related to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as effects of the pandemic on adolescents participating in the GAGE survey and their primary female caregivers.

The survey documentation is available here.

Using our data

Users are required to register and apply for a password with the UK Data Service and sign a confidentiality agreement before they can access the data. We also ask that users inform the UK Data Archive and the GAGE programme of any analysis or publications resulting from their work with the dataset. If you use the GAGE data in any publication, please follow UK Data Service and use the following acknowledgement:

The data used in this publication come from Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE), a ten-year longitudinal research programme generating evidence on what works to transform the lives of adolescent girls in the Global South (www.gage.odi.org.uk). GAGE is funded by UK aid from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The views expressed here are those of the author(s). They are not necessarily those of GAGE, FCDO or other funders.

Please use the following citations when referencing our studies:

Muz, J., Ashraful Haque, M., Jones, N., Baird, S. (2020)

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Bangladesh-Dhaka Baseline, 2017-2018. [data collection].
UK Data Service. SN: 8594,
• http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8594-1

Overseas Development Institute, GAGE, George Washington University, Yale University, World Bank. (2021)

Cox’s Bazar Panel Survey: Baseline, 2019. [data collection].
UK Data Service. SN: 8750,
• http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8750-1

Seager, J., Baird, S. (2022)

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Bangladesh Chittagong-Sylhet Cross Section, 2018. [data collection].
UK Data Service. SN: 8903,
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8903-1

Seager, J., Baird, S. (2024).

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Bangladesh Chittagong and Sylhet Baseline, 2020. [data collection].
UK Data Service. SN: 9185,
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-9185-1

Seager, J., Baird, S. (2024).

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Bangladesh Chittagong and Sylhet Round 2, 2022. [data collection].
UK Data Service. SN: 9299,
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-9299-1

Hicks, J., Woldehanna, T., Jones, N., Baird, S. (2020)

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Ethiopia Baseline, 2017-2018. [data collection].
UK Data Service. SN: 8597,
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8597-1

Hicks, J., Woldehanna, T., Jones, N., Baird, S. (2024)

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Ethiopia Baseline, 2017-2018. [data collection].
UK Data Service. SN: 9196,
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-9196-1

Yount, K., Puri, M., Jones, N. (2020)

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Nepal Baseline, 2017-2018. [data collection].
UK Data Service. SN: 8702,
• http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8702-1

Jones, N., Małachowska, A., Abu Hamad, B., Baird, S. (2021)

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Jordan Baseline, 2018-2019. [data collection].
UK Data Service. SN: 8866,
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8866-1

Baird, S., Jones, N., Abu Hamad, B., Hamory, J., Seager, J., Małachowska, A. (2023)

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Jordan Baseline School Survey, 2019-2020. [data collection].
UK Data Service. SN: 9196,
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-9196-1

Baird, S., Jones, N., Abu Hamad, B., Hamory, J., Oakley, E., Seager, J., Woldehanna, T., Yadete,
W. (2023).

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Covid-19 Phone Survey, 2020-2021. [data collection].
UK Data Service. SN: 8985,
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8985-1

Details of the citation and acknowledgement are also available on the relevant UKDS GAGE Baseline Study documentation page.

Our qualitative data

Datasets from our longitudinal qualitative research are not archived in the same way as the survey data because of concerns around confidentiality. If you have questions, please contact GAGE at gage@odi.org.uk.

Protecting the confidentiality of our study children and sites

As part of our ethical commitments, we have guaranteed to protect the anonymity and confidentiality of our study sites and respondents. GAGE is committed to the highest ethical standards to ensure that the vulnerable young people with whom we work are not harmed by our research, and that their rights are protected.

Our approach to ethics is based on DFID’s (2011) Ethics Principles for Research and Evaluation, the Economic and Social Research Council (2015) Framework for Research Ethics, the OECD (2011) Fragile States Principles, and the World Health Organization and Center for Disease Control’s guidelines on researching violence against women and children (2005).

Plans

We are in the process of cleaning the next sets of data to be released by GAGE through the UK Data Service. We will also be fast-tracking data archiving for the virtual research in relation to the coronavirus pandemic to support global efforts in capturing the impact of the virus across a wide range of communities in low- and middle-income settings.