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Electricity access through village grids in rural Senegal - Sustainability success factors and the role of micro-finance

Identification

Resource Type: Dataset

Resource ID: da|ra.35.277

Version: 1

DOI: 10.7807/senegal:minigrids:microfinance:2019:v1

URL: https://fdz.rwi-essen.de/en/doi-detail/id-107807senegalminigridsmicrofinance2019v1.html


Language of Resource

Language: eng


Titles

Title: Electricity access through village grids in rural Senegal - Sustainability success factors and the role of micro-finance

Other Title: Zugang zu Elektrizität im ländlichen Senegal durch autarke Solarstromanlagen - Faktoren der Nachhatligkeit und die Rolle von Mikrofinanzprodukten (TranslatedTitle)

Collective Title: RWI-MICRO


Primary researcher

Creators - Institution:

  • RWI


Origin Information

Publisher: RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

Publication date: 07.07.2021

Publication Place: Essen


Access

Availability: Delivery

Rights: no commercial use


Contributor

Contributor - Person:

  • Peters, Jörg (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research) [Researcher]
  • Rose, Julian (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research) [Researcher]
  • Bechtold, Emilie (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research) [Researcher]


Methods

Sampled Universe: Households and microenterprises in villages in Senegal considered for electrification via mini-grids in 2009.

Sampling: village-level sampling frame: list of villages considered for electrification via mini-grids in 2009; 25% of all households randomly sampled in each village, all microenterprises interviewed with short questionnaire.

Time Dimension: CrossSection

Collection Mode: Observation.Field


DataSets and Files

    Unit Type: Household

  • Number of Units:1281
  • Number of Variables: 30
  • Type of Data: Microdata
    • Files:
    • File Name: SEN19_HH.dta
    • File Size: 621 KB
    • File Format: dta

    Unit Type: Organization

  • Number of Units:1018
  • Number of Variables: 37
  • Type of Data: Microdata - Microenterprises
    • Files:
    • File Name: SEN19_ME.dta
    • File Size: 482 KB
    • File Format: dta

    Unit Type: Organization

  • Number of Units:86
  • Number of Variables: 460
  • Type of Data: Microdata - Villages
    • Files:
    • File Name: SEN19_VILLAGE.dta
    • File Size: 992 KB
    • File Format: dta

    Unit Type: Household

  • Number of Units:390
  • Number of Variables: 1736
  • Type of Data: Microdata
    • Files:
    • File Name: SEN19_baseline_hh.dta
    • File Size: 4889 KB
    • File Format: dta

    Unit Type: Organization

  • Number of Units:184
  • Number of Variables: 763
  • Type of Data: Microdata - Villages
    • Files:
    • File Name: SEN19_baseine_village.dta
    • File Size: 1748 KB
    • File Format: dta


Keywords

  • energy access
  • mini-grids
  • impact evaluation
  • Microfinance

Description

Description: The lack of access to electricity hampers economic development and for many years, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have pursued an agenda of increasing electricity access in rural areas. However, the evidence on impacts of electrification is partly disappointing. It is often argued that it is the absence of complementary services such as access to formal microfinance that impedes higher and especially productive electricity consumption. In cooperation with a Senegalese MFI we randomly promoted microfinance products in villages that were electrified under a mini-grid program. The endline data collection took place from March to April 2019 included 1,281 households and 1,018 enterprises in 86 villages in rural Senegal.


Coverage

Temporal Coverage: 2014;2019

Geographic coverages: SN


Citation

RWI (2021): Electricity access through village grids in rural Senegal - Sustainability success factors and the role of micro-finance. RWI-MICRO. Version: 1. RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. Dataset. doi.org/10.7807/senegal:minigrids:microfinance:2019:v1

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