Enumerator Characteristics and Reporting Bias

The Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) initiative aims to broaden and deepen the measurement of women’s agency, based on the development of new tools and rigorous testing and comparison of both new and existing methods for measuring agency, and promoting the adoption of these measures at scale. By increasing the availability of innovative meaningful measures of agency for a broad range of contexts, we hope our work will lead to an improved understanding of what women’s agency is, how it manifests and how it can best be measured across contexts given the research question at hand. Evidence suggests that men’s and women’s responses may be affected by the interview context. This tool allows identifying which enumerators’ characteristics (e.g., gender, age, beliefs on women’s rights) affect respondents’ reporting and whether there are heterogeneities across genders and contexts. This tool, Enumerator Characteristics and Reporting Bias, should be administered to the enumerators before enumerators’ training takes place and can be used to assess the need to randomize enumerators, design interventions at the enumerator-level, or control for enumerator characteristics while analyzing the survey data. This data study includes following files. 1. A survey document (including implementation guidelines)

推进性别平等（MAGNET）倡议旨在拓展并深化女性能动性（agency）的测量工作，具体路径包括开发全新测量工具、对新旧能动性测量方法开展严格测试与对比，并推动此类测量手段的规模化应用。通过为多元场景提供兼具创新性与实践价值的能动性测量方案，我们期望本研究能够增进学界对女性能动性内涵、表现形式的理解，并结合具体研究问题，探索不同场景下的最优测量路径。
已有研究表明，访谈场景会对男性与女性受访者的回答产生影响。本工具可用于识别访调员（enumerators）的哪些特征（如性别、年龄、女性权利观念等）会影响受访者的报告结果，以及不同性别与场景间是否存在异质性。该“访调员特征与报告偏差”工具应在访调员培训前完成施测，可用于评估是否需要对访调员进行随机分组、设计访调员层面的干预措施，或在分析调研数据时控制访调员特征带来的干扰。
本数据研究包含以下文件：1. 调研文档（含实施指南）