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Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys Survey Design Workshop

This workshop focuses on the sensitive issue of domestic violence, exploring its impact on women and children's well-being. It addresses the need for attitude change, legal frameworks, and improved access to resources. Attitudes towards domestic violence, including gender roles and acceptance of abuse, are assessed through social norms. The workshop examines indicators like the percentage of women justifying domestic violence. Methodological challenges in measuring violence against women are discussed, highlighting the association of attitudes with its prevalence. It emphasizes advocating for societal attitude change to combat domestic violence effectively.

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Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys Survey Design Workshop

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  1. Multiple Indicator Cluster SurveysSurvey Design Workshop Questionnaire For Individual Women: Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence MICS4 Survey Design Workshop

  2. Background • Violence against women is highly sensitive area. • It touches upon issues of power, gender and sexuality. • It affects the well-being and health of women, as well as the well-being of the children who witness it. MICS4 Survey Design Workshop

  3. Previous Research • Ending domestic violence requires: • changing the attitudes that permit such abuse • developing legal and policy frameworks to prohibit and reject it, and • improving women’s access to economic resources and girls’ access to education. MICS4 Survey Design Workshop

  4. Attitudes towards domestic violence • Attitudinal questions used to assess the acceptance of certain social norms on gender roles • Positive attitudes do not necessarily signify approval by women of wife-beating, but they signify women’s acceptance of such norms

  5. MICS Indicators # 8.14 - Attitudes toward domestic violence Percentage of women age 15-49 who state that a husband/partner is justified in hitting or beating his wife in at least one of the following circumstances: • (1) she goes out without telling him, • (2) she neglects the children, • (3) she argues with him, • (4) she refuses sex with him, • (5) she burns the food MICS4 Survey Design Workshop

  6. Domestic violence is justified by most women

  7. Methodological issues • Measurement of practices of violence against women, although, possible, raise some ethical and methodological issues • Possible via long modules • The attitudinal indicator has been found to be associated with the prevalence of domestic violence; still many women justify domestic violence even if they have not been victims • It can be used to advocate for the need to change, at the societal level, attitudes that perpetuate its existence MICS4 Survey Design Workshop

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