The DHS Program User Forum: Other countries

Home » Countries » Other countries » Colombia Gender Scale (Source of Gender scale)

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Colombia Gender Scale [message #26379]

Tue, 14 March 2023 17:01

Deidi
Messages: 5
Registered: March 2021

Member

Hi,
I would like to ask about the source of the questions in DHS Colombia serie s1302 (e.g. agrees on statement: men are head of households; agrees on statement: women need men to be happy.) I haven't been able to identify the source of them. Any leads would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[Updated on: Tue, 14 March 2023 17:05]

Report message to a moderator

Re: Colombia Gender Scale [message #26403 is a reply to message #26379]

Thu, 16 March 2023 11:19

Janet-DHS
Messages: 385
Registered: April 2022

Senior Member

Following is a response from our DHS Team, Senior Demographic and Health Research Analyst, Jeffrey Edmeades, DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Kerry MacQuarrie, and DHS Chief of Data Processing, Guillermo Rojas:

The questions in section 13 of the questionnaire appear to be drawn mainly from the Gender Equitable Men Scale (GEMS) English version here https://www.equimundo.org/resources/measuring-gender-attitud e-using-gender-equitable-men-scale-gems-in-various-socio-cul tural-settings/. We are not aware of an established scale for question 1302. We know that some gender advocacy groups participated in the design of the Colombia DHS 2015, but we cannot reconstruct the development of the questionnaire. The Colombia surveys are conducted almost completely independently from The DHS Program and USAID.

Report message to a moderator

Re: Colombia Gender Scale [message #26721 is a reply to message #26403]

Sat, 22 April 2023 21:44

Deidi
Messages: 5
Registered: March 2021

Member

Thank you, this is helpful!

One more question: Could d109 be used as a time variable for survival analysis? I'm a little confused because I contrasted it with the IPV variable and it seems to include both those who had experienced violence and those hadn't. Thank you so much for any help with understanding this. Thanks!

Report message to a moderator

Re: Colombia Gender Scale [message #26758 is a reply to message #26721]

Wed, 26 April 2023 14:27

Janet-DHS
Messages: 385
Registered: April 2022

Senior Member

Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

Yes, you could use d109 as the time variable in a survival analysis. It's ok that it includes those who have not experienced violence. You could say that those who have not experienced it have been censored. But you do not want to set up a model which assumes that eventually all women will experience domestic violence. Some percentage (a large one, I hope!) will never experience it, just as, say, some women will never have a first birth, but you can still apply a survival model.

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic:	Variables
Next Topic:	Senegal 2019 - Variable Confusion

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Sun May 28 13:22:59 Coordinated Universal Time 2023