Assessment of Some Factors Associated With Empowerment and Development Gap of Women in Three East African Countries
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An assessment of factors that explain more about women empowerment and measure the development gap between them in three East African countries namely Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda is presented using IPUMS 2002/2003 database. The data on responses from these surveys provided a set of representative population based estimates of social indicators by 2002/2003. The value of Kaiser Meyer –Olkin (KMO) and Bartlett’s test of sampling adequacy for these countries indicated factor analysis to be of good fit. Using Principal Component method, communalities which had extractions values greater than 0.5 were obtained indicating that the components represented significant variables. Factors formed with their corresponding variables and the total cumulative percentage of the variance which explained development of women empowerment in Tanzania was 72.299 percent followed by Uganda 68.735 percent and Rwanda 48.99 percent. The findings show there were no common variables to measure women's development gap in these countries.
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