Presentation by Agnes Quisumbing

1. Identifying Gender Issues in Your Research: No Cookie-Cutter Approaches Agnes R. Quisumbing International Food Policy Research Institute

10. 2003 Questionnaire Design Socio-economic modules Module Visit Gender-disaggregated information? About which hh member? Respondent A Roster—very important, since all Ids in subsequent modules will come from here 1 Yes All! H, W B Inheritance 1 Yes Children who are married, or living away H, W C Migration 1 Yes Children living away H, W D Education-short 1 Yes Coresident children of orig W E Education-long 1 Yes Orig: coresident child; split child & spouse Self (kid) F Shocks 1 No Since 1984 or since leaving parents’ house H, W J Nonfood consumption 1 Partly (clothing, footwear) All W

11. 2003 Questionnaire Design Socio-economic modules (cont’d) Module Visit Gender-disaggregated information? Which hh member? Respondent K Parcels 2 Yes ID of person who acquired the plot H L Production Record 2 Yes ID of worker H M Major Crop Production 2 No H N Agricultural Wage Labor 2 Yes ID of laborer H O Other Income 2 Yes ID of people with other incomes, businesses, ID of people sending and receiving remittances H, W P Backyard Production 2 No W

12. 2003 Questionnaire Design Socio-economic modules (cont’d) Module Visit Gender-disaggregated? Which hh member? Respondent Q Assets 3 No H or W R Social Capital 3 Yes ID of group member H or W S Savings 3 Yes ID of account owner H T Credit 3 Yes ID of borrower H, W U Lending 3 Potentially ID of borrower H

13. 2003 Questionnaire Design (cont’d) Food Consumption and related modules (typically conducted a week after socio-economic survey) Module Visit Gender-disaggregated? Which hh member? Respondent G Food consumption and food away from home 1 Yes for those away from home all W H 24-hour individual food recall 1 Yes all W I Dietary diversity 1 Yes all W V Reproductive status and child health 3 Yes Mothers; children Women 15-50, mothers W Anthropometry and morbidity 3 Yes all W

14. Customary land tenure and tree resource management in Ghana and Sumatra (Quisumbing and Otsuka, with Payongayong, Aidoo, and Suyanto, 2001)

18. Family background and assets at marriage in Bangladesh and Ethiopia What determines the bargaining power of spouses within marriage? How can these questions be asked in a culturally-relevant way, to yield useful, quantifiable information? Quisumbing and de la Briere 2000; Quisumbing and Maluccio 2003; Fafchamps and Quisumbing 2002, 2005a, 2005b