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Let’s Talk about Sex, Maybe

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: Field Methods

DOI: 10.1177/1525822x15595343

Authors: Brian Houle, Nicole Angotti, Samuel J. Clark, Jill Williams, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Jane Menken, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Stephen M. Tollman

Institutions: Australian National University, University of Colorado Boulder, American University, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Washington, Indepth Network, Utrecht University, University Medical Center Utrecht, Umeå University

Language: English

Topic: Survey Methodology and Nonresponse

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: green

Funders: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Wellcome Trust, National Institutes of Health, Medical Research Council, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: Predicting Impacts of Infectious Disease on Structure and Dynamics of Populations, Partnership for Social Science AIDS Research in South African's Era of ART Rollou, University of Colorado Population Center, Health, population and social transitions in rural Southern Africa: Elucidating pathways and testing interventions., NICHD Population Center, Sexually Transmitted Infection Epidemics: Bayesian Prevalence and Size Estimates

OpenAlex ID: W2230715325

FWCI: 11.29

Cites: 25

Cited by: 26

Related to: 10