Houle Brian, Angotti Nicole, Clark Samuel J, Williams Jill, Gómez-Olivé F Xavier, Menken Jane, Kabudula Chodziwadziwa, Klipstein-Grobusch Kerstin, Tollman Stephen M
Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; Department of Sociology and Center on Health, Risk and Society, American University, Washington DC, USA; MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Field methods. 2016;28(2):112-132. doi: 10.1177/1525822X15595343. Epub 2015 Aug 13.
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 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.
受访者可能会说谎或忘记其私密生活的细节,而且访谈者在获取回答的方式上可能会行使权力。我们使用2010 - 2011年南非农村地区性行为横断面调查的数据来探究他们的性生活情况。结果显示,调查员年龄对各项结果均有影响——受访者向年长的调查员报告的性行为“更安全”、更“负责”;调查员性别也有影响——男性向女性调查员报告的性伴侣更多。了解调查员对性行为调查数据产生的影响有助于实现方法学和分析目标。