DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38392.v1
title: Survey Data on Impact of Gendered Socialisation on Adolescents' Sexual and Reproductive Health in Southwestern Nigeria, 2018-2019, 2021
title: Version 1

description: This study explored the implications and practices of school context for boys and girls located in Osun State, Nigeria. The study examined the socialization practices, division of labor, gender roles, and access to information and resources. A total of 1,032 students, aged 10 to 14 years old, were surveyed pre-intervention. Two years later 726 of those same students were surveyed once again. The student quantitative data (DS1) was obtained using the Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) instrument. The survey is a composite of three instruments - health, vignettes, and gender norm scales. Data obtained explored a series of key health and behavioral factors including: schooling status, aspiration, and connectedness; neighborhood safety and control; pubertal maturation; body comfort; health literacy; mental health including violence, depression and drug use; empowerment; sexual practices and romantic relationships; and future expectations. Additionally, in DS1, the vignette-based questions and gender-norm scales assess student beliefs exploring perceptions with gender undertone statements. The vignette-based section assesses gender equality in scenarios related with child behavior and development (attraction to opposite sex, teasing / bullying, puberty, and pregnancy). The school assessment instruments (DS2 and DS3) completed by teachers explored the content and structure of reproductive health topics taught in the schools. Also, overall gender attitudes were asked about. The qualitative data (DS4) were obtained through small group interviews with parents. The interviews explored parents' perspective on their child's development, their role as agents of gender socialization, and how they view the school's role in teaching health sexuality.
description: The Starting Right at School (StaRS) Project is a study aimed at understanding the gender socialization norm among very young adolescents. The principal aim of this research was to know the role of parents, schools, and the community as people and places where adolescents, aged 10 - 14 years old, learn and behavior is influenced. A secondary purpose was to investigate where and how children learn gender norms, and to learn about and improve their sexual and reproductive health.
description: <strong>Dataset 1 - Adolescent Questionnaire Data:</strong> (875 variables / 1,758 cases) Data file contains questions on family dynamics, life at school and in the neighborhood, reproductive health topics, puberty, gender norms, relationships with friends and significant others, and empowerment. <strong>Dataset 2 - Head Teacher Questionnaire Data:</strong> (209 variables / 14 cases) Data file contains basic background questions about the head teacher, basic standards and practices behind the reproductive health education (RHE) program and curriculum at the school, teacher training and support provided by the school, and questions on gender attitudes broken out across six domains. <strong>Dataset 3 - Teacher Questionnaire Data:</strong> (84 variables / 177 cases) Data file contains basic background questions about the teacher, what courses they teach, whether or not they taught RHE courses at the school, and the same 38 gender attitudes asked of the head teachers. <strong>Dataset 4 - Qualitative Interview Transcripts:</strong> (6 files / 138 total pages) Separate transcripts for fathers and mothers about boys only, girls only, and both boys and girls.
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description: Response Rates: A total of 1,196 adolescents were recruited for the study. Of these, 32 adolescents were ineligible as they were older than 14 years. The remaining 1,164 adolescents were selected to interview. However, only 1,032 successful baseline interviews were completed as some adolescents were lost from the sample because they were absent from school on the interview days, or they had changed schools. The final response rate was 88.7 percent. Two years later 726 (70% of the original sample) of these respondents completed the survey once again. The head teachers and teachers were interviewed at a 100 percent response rate.
description: Presence of Common Scales: Several Likert-type scales were used.
description: Two Local Government Areas (LGAs) were randomly selected based on existing strata of LGAs in the state. A total of eight schools (3 intervention and 5 control) were purposively selected from the LGAs based on the schools' population. All students in grades 5 and 6 (the classes representing the target age) were included in the sample. On average the students were 12 years old at baseline. The gender of respondents was nearly evenly split at 50% male and female. Nearly 90% of the students were of the Yoruba race.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Adolescent Questionnaire Data DS2: Head Teacher Questionnaire Data DS3: Teacher Questionnaire Data DS4: Qualitative Interview Transcripts
description: In-school adolescents aged 10 to 14, as well as their teachers and parents, in an urban poor setting in Osun State, Nigeria. Smallest Geographic Unit: City
description: computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI); mixed modeThe school identification variable <strong>A5</strong> present in DS1: Adolescent Questionnaire Data, has been de-identified to protect the identity of the school. No school identification variable was provided in either the head teacher (DS2) or teacher (DS3) data files by the Principal Investigators. There is no variable to link any of the files together.Please refer to the processing notes located in the beginning of each ICPSR codebook for minor remediations that ICPSR performed to the three quantitative data files to protect the identity and confidentiality of students and teachers.Additionally, ICPSR reviewed the six transcripts conducted with small groups of parents. ICPSR masked specific names of individuals, places, and lower geography within the Osun State.