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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

The effect of the sex of interviewers on the quality of data in a Nigerian

family planning questionnaire.

AUTHORS

Becker S; Feyisetan K; Makinwa-Adebusoye P

SOURCE

STUDIES IN FAMILY PLANNING. 1995 Jul-Aug;26(4):233-40.

ABSTRACT

While it has been generally assumed that survey questions directed to women about sensitive topics such as

contraceptive usage and sexual behavior must be asked by female interviewers, several factors, such as the lack of

trained women, serve to make such surveys more expensive than those conducted by men. To determine whether

data quality is affected by the sex of the interviewer, therefore, an experimental design was embedded into a four-

state pretest of a family planning questionnaire in Nigeria. In addition, reinterviews were performed in 33 of the 39

original enumeration areas of one state. Of those originally interviewed by women, half were reinterviewed by men

and half by women. The same pattern was followed for those originally interviewed by men. The most significant

differences by sex of interviewer were found in the conservative state of Kano where the respondent's partner or other

men were present for 79% of the interviews. The women frequently refused to answer questions about sexual

intercourse and the durations of male-conducted interviews were significantly longer, but women in Kano were more

likely to refuse to tell a woman interviewer about current contraceptive usage. In Imo and Kwara states, female

interviewers elicited more accurate (higher) numbers of deceased children, but the number of spontaneous reports of

knowledge of contraceptive methods was higher for males. However, in Kwara State, reports of knowledge and use of

contraceptives were least reliable when men conducted both the initial and the reinterview. The present study is

limited by its inability to control for other characteristics of the interviewers and by the fact that reinterviews were only

conducted in one state. However, results from the reinterviews suggest that respondents are highly unreliable in their

reporting of family planning use, regardless of the sex of the interviewer. Small reinterview surveys should be

included as part of large-scale demographic surveys in developing countries to determine response variability of key

measures. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2560-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "The effect of the sex of interviewers on the quality of data in

a Nigerian family planning questionnaire.", is(are) Becker S; Feyisetan K; Makinwa-Adebusoye P. The source of

this article is "STUDIES IN FAMILY PLANNING. 1995 Jul-Aug;26(4):233-40.". This article was published in 1995 in

English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2560-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN:

7560

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