ERIC Number: EJ1139793
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-May
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-1525-822X
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Let's Talk about Sex, Maybe: Interviewers, Respondents, and Sexual Behavior Reporting in Rural South Africa
Houle, Brian; Angotti, Nicole; Clark, Samuel J.; Williams, Jill; Gómez-Olivé, F. Xavier; Menken, Jane; Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa; Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin; Tollman, Stephen M.
Field Methods, v28 n2 p112-132 May 2016
Researchers are often skeptical of sexual behavior surveys: Respondents may lie or forget details of their intimate lives, and interviewers may exercise authority in how they capture responses. We use data from a 2010-2011 cross-sectional sexual behavior survey in rural South Africa to explore who says what to whom about their sexual lives. Results show an effect of fieldworker age across outcomes: Respondents report "safer," more "responsible" sexual behavior to older fieldworkers, and an effect of fieldworker sex; men report more sexual partners to female fieldworkers. Understanding fieldworker effects on the production of sexual behavior survey data serves methodological and analytical goals.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Sexuality, Rural Areas, Surveys, Age Differences, Gender Differences, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Regression (Statistics)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Institute on Aging (DHHS/NIH); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
Grant or Contract Numbers: R24AG032112; K01HD057246; R01HD054511; NICHDR21HD051146