PMID- 35294776
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220623
LR  - 20220713
IS  - 1728-4465 (Electronic)
IS  - 0039-3665 (Linking)
VI  - 53
IP  - 2
DP  - 2022 Jun
TI  - How Interviewers Affect Responses to Sensitive Questions on the Justification for 
      Wife Beating, the Refusal to have Conjugal Sex, and Domestic Violence in India.
PG  - 259-279
LID - 10.1111/sifp.12193 [doi]
AB  - Despite a general understanding that interviewers might cause measurement errors 
      on sensitive questions in sample surveys, there is relatively little research on 
      interviewer effects on responses to questions on women justifying a woman's 
      refusal to have sex with her husband, women justifying wife beating, women's 
      experience of physical and sexual violence, and whether the woman's father ever 
      beat her mother. This study examines interviewer effects on these indicators that 
      were collected in two large-scale National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) in India 
      (2005-2006 and 2015-2016). We use cross-classified random intercept multivariable 
      multilevel logit models to examine interviewer effects. In both surveys, we find 
      large interviewer effects on questions about the justification of a woman 
      refusing to have sex with her husband (32-33% in NFHS-3 and 45-46% in NFHS-4) and 
      the justification of wife beating (27-28% in NFHS-3 and 33-34% in NFHS-4). The 
      interviewer effects were much larger in the 2015-2016 survey than in the 
      2005-2006 survey. Such large interviewer effects should be considered when 
      interpreting trends and patterns on these topics, especially since the 
      interviewer effects might have changed between survey rounds. Understanding 
      interviewer effects is important given the wide use of these surveys in policy 
      formulation and monitoring in India.
CI  - (c) 2022 The Population Council, Inc.
FAU - Singh, Abhishek
AU  - Singh A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6263-4410
AD  - Department of Public Health & Mortality Studies, International Institute for 
      Population Sciences, Mumbai, 400 088, India.
FAU - Kumar, Kaushalendra
AU  - Kumar K
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5913-0297
AD  - Department of Public Health & Mortality Studies, International Institute for 
      Population Sciences, Mumbai, 400 088, India.
FAU - Arnold, Fred
AU  - Arnold F
AD  - Demographic and Health Surveys Program, ICF, Calverton, Maryland, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220316
PL  - United States
TA  - Stud Fam Plann
JT  - Studies in family planning
JID - 7810364
SB  - IM
MH  - *Domestic Violence
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Surveys
MH  - Humans
MH  - India
MH  - *Spouses
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2022/03/17 06:00
MHDA- 2022/06/24 06:00
CRDT- 2022/03/16 17:18
PHST- 2022/03/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/06/24 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/03/16 17:18 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/sifp.12193 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Stud Fam Plann. 2022 Jun;53(2):259-279. doi: 10.1111/sifp.12193. Epub 2022 Mar 
      16.