Sub-Saharan Africa is the focus of this dataset, which provides binary indicators on legal provisions affecting women's economic opportunities. The data, compiled by Mary Hallward‐Driemeier, surveys constitutions and statutes across 47 countries, covering family, inheritance, land, and labor laws. It documents where gender gaps in laws impinge on women's legal capacity and property rights.
Use Cases
- Comparative analysis of legal frameworks for women's rights based on binary country-level indicators.
- Modeling the relationship between legal provisions and female entrepreneurship based on documented property and contract rights.
- Assessing the gap between formal law and practical application based on the book's examination of legal practice.
- Policy impact studies on labor laws, such as restrictions on work hours or equal pay provisions, mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Covers all 47 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Focuses on specific legal domains: family, inheritance, land, and labor laws.
- Provides a series of binary indicators for legal provisions.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Mary Hallward‐Driemeier
- Collection Method
- Survey of constitutions and statutes.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated is unknown.
- Geography
- Sub-Saharan Africa (47 countries)