Informational Ambiguity and Survey Bias: Husbands’ and Wives’ Reports on Their Contribution to Their Families

Tao, Hung‐Lin

doi:10.1007/s11205-012-0029-5

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“…These dynamics can directly influence reporting practices in household surveys in respondents' ability to give accurate estimates for their spouses and/or other members of the household. The area that has been most hotly contested in intra-household surveys is the issue of reported household income and decision-making power (Becker et al, 2006;Tao, 2013). A recent study in Malawi by Fisher et al (2010) found that in comparing husbands' and wives' estimations of each other's income, spousal agreement on income estimation occurred in just 6% of 130 households surveyed.…”

Section: Challenges Of Using Survey Data To Interpret Household Gendementioning

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“…Another explanation could be the issue of social desirability bias. Social desirability is likely to be a biasing factor in situations where individuals experience conflict between their true preference/experiences and the socially desirable answer (Tao, 2013). It is possible that in order to appear more autonomous to enumerators, respondents overstated their own contributions to dairy activities and underestimated their spouses'.…”

Section: Implications Of Findings For Low Emissions Dairy Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gendered reporting of household dynamics in the Kenyan dairy sector: trends and implications for low emissions dairy development

Tavenner

Fraval

Omondi

et al. 2018

Gender, Technology and Development

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Within the Kenyan dairy sector, climate change mitigation interventions are striving to sustainably intensify milk production while addressing the gender dynamics that mediate farmers' ability to effectively participate in, and benefit from, low emissions development. In order to better understand these gender dynamics, household surveys were deployed by the East African Dairy Development (EADD) program to collect information on current practices of decision-making, resources, and labor dynamics within dairy farm households. Using the EADD survey results as secondary data, this study analyzes emergent patterns in these domains among cattle-keeping households in Bomet, Nandi, Uasin Gishu, and Kericho counties in Western Kenya. In analyzing these patterns, paired sample tests revealed statistically significant differences in results based on the gender of the respondent. While there were some categories that women and men reported on similarly, other areas were hotly contested. These results provide important challenges, both methodologically and programmatically, in interpreting gender dynamics across these domains. This paper reflects on the challenges and the opportunities of these data for informing gender-equitable low emissions development in the Kenyan dairy sector.

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Section: Challenges Of Using Survey Data To Interpret Household Gendementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implications Of Findings For Low Emissions Dairy Developmentmentioning

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Gendered reporting of household dynamics in the Kenyan dairy sector: trends and implications for low emissions dairy development

Tavenner

Fraval

Omondi

et al. 2018

Gender, Technology and Development

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“…The child sample will contain higher numbers of very old and frail parents, and this would motivate a choice for the adult child design. Yet children may over-report what they are giving to their parents, something that would be consistent with a more general tendency to overstate one’s own contributions in personal relationships (Kamo 2000 ; Tao 2013 ). If this bias occurs, it would not be wise to rely solely on the adult child data.…”

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The Effects of Ageing on Intergenerational Support Exchange: A New Look at the Hypothesis of Flow Reversal

Kalmijn

2018

Eur J Population

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There has been debate about whether the flow of intergenerational support reverses as parents age. One view is that in western countries, parents remain ‘net donors’ to children, even in very old age. Such a conclusion coincides with notions of parental altruism and would be in contrast to notions of exchange and reciprocity over the life course. This paper examines the thesis of flow reversal in a new way: it uses prospective longitudinal data, it combines data from samples of ageing parents and samples of adult children, it develops a way to create measures of balance from frequency items on support exchange, and it combines objective measures of support exchange with subjective perceptions of symmetry. The focus is limited to support that involves time and effort. The support that parents give to children declines with age, the support they receive increases, and at around age 75–76, parents become ‘net receivers’. The decline in downward support is stronger than the increase in upward support, suggesting that declining parental opportunities to give plays an important role in the flow reversal. In sum, the analyses provide evidence for what we can call delayed and parent-driven flow reversal. Evidence for flow reversal is stronger in the sample of adult children, pointing to the limitations of sampling ageing parents. Finally, there is correspondence between objective measures of support exchange and perceptions of symmetry, although on the whole, few parents regard themselves as ‘net receivers’.

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“…Researchers have explained these discrepancies by a systematic bias related to over-or underestimation of self and spouse. The source of 'wrong' estimations lies in respondents' differential perceptions of intra-household gender relations and social desirability (Tao 2013;Kamo 2000). While some have called this the 'he said, she said dilemma', others have used such estimations not as statistically accurate information but as an entry point for the analysis of gender dynamics (Tavenner et al 2018, p. 4;Kamo 2000;Ambler et al 2017).…”

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Participation in and Gains from Traditional Vegetable Value Chains: a Gendered Analysis of Perceptions of Labour, Income and Expenditure in Producers’ and Traders’ Households

Fischer

Patt²,

Ochieng

et al. 2020

Eur J Dev Res

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Horticulture is one of the fastest growing subsectors of agriculture in Tanzania. Gender relations in vegetable-producing and vegetable-trading households need to be understood to make value chain development equitable. This study, carried out in northern and central Tanzania, is based on data from surveys, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews. The perceptions of men and women traders and producers are investigated with regard to labour participation in traditional vegetable value chains and gains (income and expenditure) from it. Farmers were found to report more balanced intra-household labour arrangements paired with less-balanced income and expenditure shares, while traders indicated less-balanced labour contributions that went hand in hand with more-balanced shares of benefits. Farmers related limited household development not only to imbalances in benefits but also to a lack of trust and cooperation between spouses. The importance of gender-transformative approaches in agricultural value chains is emphasized herein.

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Informational Ambiguity and Survey Bias: Husbands’ and Wives’ Reports on Their Contribution to Their Families

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Gendered reporting of household dynamics in the Kenyan dairy sector: trends and implications for low emissions dairy development

Gendered reporting of household dynamics in the Kenyan dairy sector: trends and implications for low emissions dairy development

The Effects of Ageing on Intergenerational Support Exchange: A New Look at the Hypothesis of Flow Reversal

Participation in and Gains from Traditional Vegetable Value Chains: a Gendered Analysis of Perceptions of Labour, Income and Expenditure in Producers’ and Traders’ Households

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