Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys Survey Design Workshop

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