Indicator 5.a.1 (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Target 5.a: Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

Indicator 5.a.1: (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

2024

SDG indicator 1.4.2.

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Land ownership

In the context of indicator 5.a.1 ‘land ownership’ is defined as secure tenure rights, i.e., rights to use, manage and control land, fisheries and forests.

Agricultural land

Land is considered ‘agricultural land’ according to its use. The classes and definitions of land use are based on the classification of land use for the agricultural census recommended by the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020.

Secure tenure rights: comprised of two sub-components: (i) legally recognized documentation and (ii) perception of the security of tenure, which are both necessary to provide a full measurement of tenure security.

The basic concepts and terms essential to collecting data needed to compute SDG indicator 5.a.1 are the following:

1. Agricultural land
2. Agricultural household
3. Agricultural population
4. Ownership or secure rights over agricultural land

The indicator consists of two sub-indicators.

Sub-indicator 5.a.1 (a):

Sub-indicator 5.a.1 (a) is a prevalence measure. It measures the prevalence of people in the agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, disaggregated by sex.

The above formula was used to compute the indicator, note that both the numerator and denominator are based women,( Data is only for women).

Sub indicator 5.a.1 (b) cannot be computed due to data un availability for both genders:

5.a.1 (a): percent (%)

2022 Kenya Continuous Household Survey (KCHS) Micro data, Women Economic Module (WEE)

WEE module was incorporated in 2022 KCHS. Survey and sampling design was done to identify clusters,Kist method was used to sample women aged >18 years. Survey tools were developed, pretesting and finalization of questionnaires, recruitment and training of field staff, field data collection and capture through personal interviews, data collection was done using CAPI, Data was cleaning and analyzed

One off survey year 2022

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Survey data collected by KNBS

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

According to the statistics act 2006 , KNBS is the principal agency of the Government for collecting, analyzing and disseminating statistical data in Kenya and the custodian of official statistical information

Kish Grid method in selection of eligeable women. Data for this indicator is based on asset ownership

Indicator 5.a.1 aims to monitor the gender balance on ownership/secure rights over agricultural land. Sub-indicator (a) and sub-indicator (b) are based on the same data and they monitor ownership/rights from two different angles. While sub-indicator (a) uses the total female agricultural population as reference population, and it tells us how many female own land, sub-indicator (b) focuses on the agricultural population with land ownership/secure rights, and it tells us the no. of women with such rights.

Therefore, it is sufficient to have:

1. The total number of women involved in agriculture with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land , and
2. The total agricultural women population

Data available for women, no data on men therefore the indicator is only computed for adult women, in future surveys information on land ownership and secure rights ownership should be collected for both Men and Women

The computation of this indicator involved women considered as owners or holders of secure rights to agricultural land all the women in the reference population who:

• Are listed as ‘owners’ or ‘holders’ on a written legal document that testifies security of rights over agricultural land
• Have the right to sell agricultural land
• Have the right to bequeath agricultural land

KNBS is responsible to check the syntaxes used in the computation of the indicator as well as the questions, data quality checked and approved using KeSQAF.

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KeSQAF and Data Dissemination policy is followed,

The quality of the output is controlled by a series of steps put in place. This includes well designed data capture methods using Computer Aided Personal Interviews, proper training of data collectors, use of internationally accepted methods by our knowledgeable data compilers and peer reviewing of reports before publication

The Bureau collaborates with stakeholders to discus and agree on methods to be followed to ensure the product is of high quality

The findings are compared with other reports like KPHC to validate the data, several analysts computes the indicator separately and compared, Data Quality Assessment Framework and ISO 9001:2015 standards before dissemination

The microdata and the report is always available on KNBS Website, the data is disaggregated at National, Rural/Urban and County

No comparison done so far.

2022 Kenya Continuous Household Survey microdata

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