Эффект интервьюера и гендерное равенство: оценка иде­ального возраста жизненных событий в странах Европы

Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2023. № 6(178). С. 197–217.

Korsunava V., Vólchenko O.

This article compares the relationship between responses to gender related questions and interviewer characteristics, depending on the country level of gender equality. Existing literature provides two main approaches to explaining interviewer effect — the social attribution model and the social distance model. According the first approach, respondents change their responses depending on the characteristics of the interviewer; the second approach considers the difference in the social characteristics of the respondent and the interviewer. This study examines the influence of interviewers’ gender (social attribution model) and the difference in the age of the respondent and the interviewer (social distance model) on the assessment of the ideal age for various demographic events in the lives of men and women. Based on the data of the European Social Survey’s Round 9, first, we show that female interviewers receive a greater estimate of the ideal age for events in the life of men. Second, the effect of interviewer’s gender is lower in countries with higher gender equality. Third, a larger age difference between respondent and interviewer leads to a decrease in the estimate of the ideal age for the life events under study, and the effect remains the same for all countries under study. The results of the research indicate the need to consider the characteristics of the interviewer when analyzing survey data.

Keywords: сравнительные исследования, гендерное равенство, gender equality, interviewer effect, comaprative studies, age of life events, эффект интервьюера, возраст наступления жизненных событий

Publication based on the results of: Value Polarization and Its Societal Consequences in a Comparative Perspective (2023)