The conditions for women's autonomy: Statistical data for Valle del Cauca

Lina Buchely; Heidy Acevedo; Salome Arias-Arevalo; Edgar Benítez; Carolina Borda Niño; Erika Márquez; Juan Milanese; Enrique Rodríguez; Viviam Unás; Blanca Zuluaga

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105751

The conditions for women's autonomy: Statistical data for Valle del Cauca

Data Brief. 2020 May 21:31:105751. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105751. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Universidad Icesi, Director of the Observatorio para la Equidad de las Mujeres.
² Universidad Icesi, Coordinator of the Observatorio para la Equidad de las Mujeres.
³ Universidad Icesi, Research Assistant of the Observatorio para la Equidad de las Mujeres and student of the Master's Degree in Social and Political Studies.
⁴ Universidad Icesi, Social Sciences Department, Cali, Colombia.
⁵ Fundación WWB Colombia, Chief research officer, Fundación WWB Colombia and visiting lecturer, Sociology and Gender Studies Department, FLACSO Ecuador.
⁶ Universidad Icesi, Director of the Sociology Program.
⁷ Universidad Icesi, Head of the Department of Political Studies.
⁸ Universidad Icesi, Director of the Center for interdisciplinary, legal, social and humanistic studies (CIES).
⁹ Universidad Icesi, Head of the Pedagogy Department, Cali, Colombia.
¹⁰ Universidad Icesi, Economics Department, Cali, Colombia.

Abstract

In this article, we describe the data set on theconditions for women's autonomy in the municipalities of Cali, Buenaventura, Yumbo, and Jamundí (Colombia). The database was developed by the Observatoriopara la Equidad de las Mujeres (OEM), an entity resulting from an alliancebetween Universidad Icesi and Fundación WWB Colombia. The OEM's purpose is toconstruct measurements that make it possible to account for women's autonomy,based on three main dimensions: physical autonomy (associated with aspects ofpersonal and family life), economic and financial autonomy (the type of work,income, decision-making with respect to these aspects, entrepreneurship orbusiness units, among others), and leadership and public participation(electoral practices, type of participation, relation to institutions, etc.),while fundamentally, considering women's capacity to make decisions onthese aspects, based on both theirperception and their actions. As well as helping to overcome the limitations ofexisting information, this primary data collection is aimed at generatingvalid, reliable and high-quality inputs to formulate local and national publicpolicies to improve the living conditions of women in Colombia's Pacificregion. The survey, designed and applied by the OEM, was first implemented inOctober and November 2018 through multi-stage probability sampling. The samplesize was 1,507 women in the four mentioned municipalities.

Keywords: Autonomy; Colombia; gender equality; stratified sampling; women.