title: Let's Talk about Sex, Maybe: Interviewers, Respondents, and Sexual Behavior Reporting in Rural South Africa.
abstract: Researchers are often skeptical of sexual behavior surveys: respondents may lie or forget details of their intimate lives, and interviewers may exercise authority in how they capture responses. We use data from a 2010-2011 cross-sectional sexual behavior survey in rural South Africa to explorewho says what to whomabout their sexual lives. Results show an effect of fieldworker age across outcomes -- respondents report "safer", more "responsible" sexual behavior to older fieldworkers; and an effect of fieldworker sex -- men report more sexual partners to female fieldworkers. Understanding fieldworker effects on the production of sexual behavior survey data serves methodological and analytical goals.
authors.affiliation: Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Houle
authors.affiliation: Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; Department of Sociology and Center on Health, Risk and Society, American University, Washington DC, USA; MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Angotti
authors.affiliation: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; University of Washington, USA; INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana.
authors.forename: Samuel J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.affiliation: Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.affiliation: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: F Xavier
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Gómez-Olivé
authors.affiliation: Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Menken
authors.affiliation: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: Chodziwadziwa
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kabudula
authors.affiliation: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Global Health Unit, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Kerstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Klipstein-Grobusch
authors.affiliation: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Centre for Global Health Research, Umea University, Sweden; INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana.
authors.forename: Stephen M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Tollman