This report is about Polygamy in Senegal during the 1980s. The report aims to use both fiction and non-fiction to talk about such a dynamic topic. By relying on the novel So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba and the Senegal DHS 1986 (French) Final report, I could provide a glimpse of both qualitative and quantitative data on the subject.
To retrieve the quantitative data, please refer to The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) click here
Follow these steps to learn how I had found the Final Report:
- Click on the DHS website
- On the right tab, locate Publications and hover the cursor over publications
- With the cursor, you should see Journal Articles Search; that is the tab you want to select
- Once open, you should see a left-hand column with suggestions on how to sift through the numerous published journals
- For the sake of this report, I had selected By Type
- then click DHS Final Report
- From here, there are many ways to find the desired report. In this case, I will go through one route.
- Type the desired country to see the final report in the search bar on the left.
- Then, sift through the many versions of the DHS Final Report to look at
- Once a report is selected, the journey begins with finding a topic to research.
The Final Report for Senegal I had tried to find a topic that I was most curious about, in this case, was, polygamy, and it should be noted some Final Reports on the DHS website are not always in English, so the final report text may need some translation if English is your first language. Therefore, I used Microsoft Azure and their translator software to convert the French text (after I had extracted the data from the PDF using the R package 'magicK') into English text.