How Business - and Community -Oriented Collective Action Initiatives Shape Smallholder Women's Empowerment in Central Kenya

This dataset was developed to examine how participation in business-oriented collective action initiatives (BCAIs) and community/livelihood-oriented collective action initiatives (CCAIs) shapes women’s empowerment among smallholder households in Central Kenya. The dataset comprises cross-sectional data collected from 532 households and is highly multidimensional, incorporating demographic, socioeconomic, agricultural, institutional, social capital, and Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) indicators. It enables comparative analysis between BCAI participants, CCAI participants, and non-members to assess how different collective action structures influence women’s empowerment outcomes across the WEAI domains. The dataset is accompanied by a comprehensive do-file containing detailed Stata codes for variable construction, WEAI metric estimation, decomposition analysis, and econometric modelling. Specifically, the do-file includes procedures for calculating women’s empowerment indicators across the five WEAI domains and their sub-domains, including censored headcounts, percentage contributions, absolute contributions, inadequacy scores, disempowerment indices (M0), and the Five Domains of Empowerment (5DE) index. In addition, the do-file contains multinomial endogenous treatment effects regression models, including pre-estimation and post-estimation procedures, used to estimate the effects of BCAIs and CCAIs on women’s empowerment outcomes while correcting for self-selection into collective action groups.