Women In Muslim Countries (WIMC) Survey

Survey research has a role to play in providing Muslim women with a public voice where custom and culture do not permit them their own. To this end, D³ sponsors The Women In Muslim Countries (WIMC) Survey. This multi-country, multi-wave study is designed to measure women’s empowerment in actual daily practice, providing a deep look into the oft-perceived gap between current public policy and empowerment initiatives and actual practice on the personal and local level.

Now in its second year, WIMC currently contains data on the 17 countries listed below. Countries are continuously added. Most countries have national stratified random samples to capture the attitudes and behaviors of the female population as a whole.

Afghanistan Bangladesh Bosnia-Herzegovina Egypt Iran Iraq Jordan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan

Kosovo Lebanon Pakistan Saudi Arabia Northern Sudan Syria Tajikistan Turkey

Selected WIMC Publications

Feld, K. (2007) Giving Voice To Women in Muslim Countries. PublicOpinionPros.com. November.

Feld, K. (2007) "Women In The World's Muslim Economies: Measuring the Effectiveness of Empowerment." Presentation for the ESOMAR 60th Annual Conference, Berlin, Germany, September 16-18.