Measurement of women's autonomy according to women and their husbands: Results from five Asian countries
Measurement of women's autonomy according to women and their husbands: Results from five Asian countries
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2004.06.001
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发表时间：
2006-03-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Smith, HL
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作者：
Ghuman, SJ;Lee, HJ;Smith, HL
我们说明了测量性别关系的困难，在调查中比较夫妇的反应，调查项目的妻子的自主权在各个领域使用的数据来自23个社区在印度，巴基斯坦，马来西亚，菲律宾和泰国。我们采用了一个项目响应模型表明，妇女的自主权的水平取决于是否妻子或丈夫的受访者和响应类别不具有相同的认知或语义意义的男人和女人。由于难以解释的原因，男女之间的分歧在各个社区各不相同。这些项目还包含随机测量误差，削弱了配偶报告之间的相关性。我们的结论是，这些调查问题是有限的效用，了解不同背景下的性别分层的差异。(c)2004年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
We illustrate the difficulty of measuring gender relations in surveys by comparing couple responses to survey items on the wife's autonomy in various domains using data from 23 communities in India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. We employ an item response model to show that the level of women's autonomy depends on whether wives or husbands are respondents and that the response categories do not have the same cognitive or semantic meanings to men and women. The disagreement between men and women varies across communities for reasons that are not easy to explain. The items also contain random measurement error that attenuates the correlation between spousal reports. We conclude that these survey questions are of limited utility for understanding differences in gender stratification across context. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.