This study showed good relationships between social capital and measures of political interest and participation, but there were marked difference between rural and urban women. Social capital, as we have defined this, is a property of rural rather than urban women. However, social capital is not a static property of individuals and communities and clearly varies both over time and due to socio-political events. Thus, we examined the stability of this previous finding, looking to see whether the ruralurban differences were stable over time, particularly since the changes over the five-year period, 2012 to 2017, were marked. Briefly, this covers the period from the last year of the Inclusive Government (and the Global Political Agreement), the aftermath of the surprising electoral result in 2013, and the rapidly declining economic situation under the “new” ZANU-PF government. Methods For this study, we used the data from three rounds of the Afrobarometer surveys Round 5 (2012), Round 6 (2014), and Round 7 (2017). Disaggregating women, we ended with a total sample of 3003 women for the three rounds. The detailed methods are described in another report. Here we are reporting only on the changes that took place over these three Rounds. Briefly, and derived from the literature, we first constructed a measure of Social Capital from six questions that were asked in all three Rounds, and also six measures of forms of participation. Each of the latter was composed of several questions themselves. Measure of Social Capital 1. How often felt unsafe walking in neighbourhood; 2. Attend a community meeting; 3. Join others to raise an issue; 4. Member of voluntary association or community group; 5. How often careful what you say; 6. Like, dislike or not care as neighbours: people of different ethnicity. Measures of Participation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Access to information (4); Freedoms (2); Political Participation (3); Agency (3); Support for Democracy(2); Political Trust (8). The number for each measure indicates the number of questions from the Afrobarometer that was used to construct the measure. A more complex analysis was carried out, based around a number of testable hypotheses, and described in another report (RAU & MPOI. 2017(a)). Here, we merely report on the quantitative findings over the five years. Results (Changes in aspects of Social Capital) Here we deal with the data disaggregated by year in order to examine whether there are changes, because there have been marked political and economic changes over this five-year period. 7