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Decision maker about major household purchases: someone else
Decision maker about Major household purchases: someone else is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for major household purchases is mainly someone else
- Coverage
- 71 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2022
- Series
- 71
- Unit
- percent
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-05
- Indicator
- decision-maker-about-major-household-purchases-someone-else
- Interva ID
- worldbank-decision-maker-about-major-household-purchases-someone-else
Recency
aging
data to 2022; catalog to 2025
Provenance
2 steps
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.
Recency
50%Latest observation is 2022; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 3 year(s) behind (aging).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
27%46 of 71 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 27% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 71 of the 238 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 2 observations; the earliest begins in 1999.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.
By country
Decision maker about major household purchases: someone else for each of the 71 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Afghanistan 2015–2015
- Albania 2009–2018
- Angola 2016–2016
- Armenia 2000–2016
- Azerbaijan 2006–2006
- Bangladesh 2004–2018
- Benin 2001–2018
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of 2003–2008
- Burkina Faso 2003–2010
- Burundi 2010–2017
- Cambodia 2005–2022
- Cameroon 2004–2018
- Chad 2015–2015
- Colombia 2000–2015
- Comoros 2012–2012
- Congo 2012–2012
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the 2007–2014
- Côte d'Ivoire 2012–2012
- Dominican Republic 2007–2013
- Egypt 2000–2014
- Eritrea 2002–2002
- Eswatini 2007–2007
- Ethiopia 2005–2016
- Gabon 2012–2021
- Gambia 2013–2020
- Ghana 2003–2014
- Guatemala 2015–2015
- Guinea 2005–2018
- Guyana 2009–2009
- Haiti 2000–2017
- Honduras 2006–2012
- India 2006–2021
- Indonesia 2003–2017
- Jordan 2002–2018
- Kenya 2003–2022
- Kyrgyzstan 2012–2012
- Lesotho 2004–2014
- Liberia 2007–2020
- Madagascar 2004–2021
- Malawi 2000–2016
- Maldives 2009–2017
- Mali 2001–2018
- Mauritania 2021–2021
- Moldova, Republic of 2005–2005
- Morocco 2004–2004
- Mozambique 2003–2015
- Myanmar 2016–2016
- Namibia 2007–2013
- Nepal 2001–2022
- Nicaragua 2001–2001
- Niger 2006–2012
- Nigeria 2003–2018
- Pakistan 2018–2018
- Papua New Guinea 2018–2018
- Peru 2000–2012
- Philippines 2003–2022
- Rwanda 2000–2020
- Sao Tome and Principe 2009–2009
- Senegal 2005–2019
- Sierra Leone 2008–2019
- South Africa 2016–2016
- Tajikistan 2012–2017
- Tanzania, United Republic of 2005–2016
- Timor-Leste 2010–2016
- Togo 2014–2014
- Turkmenistan 2000–2000
- Uganda 2001–2016
- Ukraine 2007–2007
- Yemen 2013–2013
- Zambia 2002–2018
- Zimbabwe 1999–2015
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambodia | 2022 | 0.30 | percent |
| Kenya | 2022 | 0.20 | percent |
| Nepal | 2022 | 18.50 | percent |
| Philippines | 2022 | 0.30 | percent |
| Gabon | 2021 | 1 | percent |
| India | 2021 | 1.80 | percent |
| Madagascar | 2021 | 0.20 | percent |
| Mauritania | 2021 | 3 | percent |
| Gambia | 2020 | 4.30 | percent |
| Liberia | 2020 | 0.50 | percent |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
Demographic & Health Surveys
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Read from
World Bank
Gender Statistics
declared by worldbank in source
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
World Bank (2026). Decision maker about major household purchases: someone else. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-decision-maker-about-major-household-purchases-someone-else (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.
@misc{interva-worldbank-decision-maker-about-major-household-purchases-someone-else,
title = {Decision maker about major household purchases: someone else},
author = {World Bank},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-decision-maker-about-major-household-purchases-someone-else}},
note = {Interva dataset worldbank-decision-maker-about-major-household-purchases-someone-else; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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