Women In Muslim Countries (WIMC) Survey

D3 Systems is a Development Gateway Cooperating Organization

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 third year, WIMC currently contains data on the 23 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 Bahrain Bangladesh Bosnia-Herzegovina Egypt Iran Iraq Jordan Kazakhstan Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan

Lebanon Oman Pakistan Qatar Saudi Arabia Sudan Syria Tajikistan Turkey United Arab Emirates Yemen

Selected WIMC News and Publications

D3 Contributes to Afghan WIMC Data to Pew Forum Muslim Demography Study

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