Socioeconomic Role of Nicaraguan Women
1977-1978
Study Description for Wave I, II & III
Table of Contents
- Unique Identification Number
- Type of File
- Methodology
- Summary
- Geographic Coverage
- Descriptors
- Technical Notes
- Cited References
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* Most of this information has been taken from the original study description
which was written in 1985.
- Unique Identification Number:
- QN-501-001-1-1-NIC-DPLS-1978
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- Type of File:
- Numeric.
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- Methodology:
- This study consists of interviews with 4,104 women between the ages
of 15 and 45 living in Nicaragua. A stratified random sampling technique
was used to collect 3,409 of the interviews; the other 695 interviews
are of sisters of the original respondents. The interviewing was done
in three phases, or waves, using different survey instruments. Wave
I interviews were conducted during the summer of 1977 of
1,294 women residing in Managua. Households were selected randomly
within certain neighborhoods chosen via areal stratification. Once
in a household, the woman interviewed was randomly selected from among
women 15 to 45 years old, excluding nonworking students. Wave
II consists of 2,080 interviews with women residing in small
towns and in cities other than Managua, and were conducted during
the winter and spring of 1978. Of these, 1,671 women were again randomly
chosen from the households of a selected neighborhood or block. The
other 409 women are sisters of the Wave I sample. Wave III
interviewing was done in the rural areas during the summer
and fall of 1978. During this time of intense political and social
unrest, 730 interviews were collected before interviewing was stopped.
Of these, 79 were randomly selected respondents, and 255 were sisters
of women previously interviewed; the remaining 396 lived in households
where agrarian activity provided the major source of family income,
of these, 365 were randomly selected and 31 were sisters.
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- Summary:
- The interviews acquired current and retrospective information in
four general areas: economic activity of the respondent and other
members of the household; fertility and contraceptive behavior; health
and nutritional status of family members and use of medical facilities;
and, other background variables such as marital and migratory status,
education, attitudes and intensity of religious observance of the
family, the parents of the respondent and her spouse or male companion.
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- Geographic Coverage:
- Nicaragua
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- Descriptors:
- health, nutrition, contraceptive knowledge, education, fertility,
family and personal characteristics, economic activity, migration
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- Technical Notes:
- The public use file consists of 4,104 records that are 4,560 characters
in length. Interviewing was done in three phases, or waves, using
different survey instruments. The data from all three waves were originally
stored in seven different files. The files were later appended together;
however, knowledge of the original file number is essential to reading
the codebook and interpreting the data (file number is recorded in
variable 2 of the data file). The data have been stored in F6 format,
meaning that every variable takes up six characters, values are right-justified
and padded with blanks. Users should note that the codebook does not
contain the actual locations of variables, but that the variables
number must be used to determine location (e.g. variable 1 occupies
columns 1 through 6, variable 2 occupies columns 7 through 12, and
so on).
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- Cited References:
- Socioeconomic Characteristics of Women in a Developing Country
and the Degree of Urbanization by Jere R. Behrman, et al. Institute
for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper 655-81. Madison, Wisc.: University
of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty, 1980.
This edition of the Socioeconomic Role of Nicaraguan Women, 1977-1978
has been deposited at the Data and Program Library Service, University
of Wisconsin-Madison for distribution by Barbara L. Wolfe, University
of Wisconsin, Departments of Economics and Preventive Medicine, and
Institute for Research on Poverty. This research was supported by the
Population and Development Policy Research Program sponsored jointly
by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. Additional support was provided
by the Agency for International Development contract AID/otr-c-1571.
All manuscripts utilizing data made available through the Data and
Program Library Service should acknowledge that fact as well as cite
the title of the study as indicated on the title page and sample catalog
statement and identify the original collector(s) of the data. All users
of these data are urged to follow some adaptation of this statement
with the parentheses indicating items to be completed or deleted appropriately
by the individual analyst.
The data (and tabulations) utilized in this publication were made
available (in part) by the Data and Program Library Service, University
of Wisconsin, Madison. The Socioeconomic Role of Nicaraguan Women,
1977-1978 was produced by Barbara L. Wolfe, et al., and is distributed
by the Data and Program Library Service. The research was supported
by the Population and Development Policy Research Program sponsored
jointly by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and the Agency for
International Development. Neither the principal investigators, the
funding agencies, nor the Data and Program Library Service bears any
responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented here.
In order to provide funding agencies with essential information about
the use of archival resources and to facilitate the exchange of information
about DPLS participants' research activities, each user of these facilities
is expected to send two copies of each completed manuscript, thesis
abstract, or reprint to the Data and Program and Library Service.
The public use file consists of 4,104 records that are
4,560 characters in length. Interviewing was done in three phases, or
waves, using different survey instruments. The data from all three waves
were originally stored in seven different files. The files were later
appended together; however, knowledge of the original file number is
essential to reading the codebook and interpreting the data (file number
is recorded in variable 2 of the data file). The data have been stored
in F6 format, meaning that every variable takes up six characters, values
are right-justified and padded with blanks. Users should note that the
codebook does not contain the actual locations of variables, but that
the variables number must be used to determine location (e.g. variable
1 occupies columns 1 through 6, variable 2 occupies columns 7 through
12, and so on). While this is a rectangular data set, and each record
has 760 variables, the three waves differ from each other in length.
Wave I has 700 variables, Wave II has 500 variables, and Wave III has
760 variables. At the end of records for Waves I and II, a zero is stored
in the data when a particular variables is not applicable to the record
(e.g., Variables 701 through 760 for Wave I contain zeros). The user
is urged to carefully examine all documentation.
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