This presentation was given by Juliana Muriel (International Center for Tropical Agriculture / CIAT), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Canberra and co-sponsored by the University of Canberra, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on April 2-4, 2019 in Canberra, Australia.
Read more: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/aisc/seeds-of-change and https://gender.cgiar.org/annual-conference-2019/
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Intra-household decision-making processes: What the qualitative and quantitative data tell us
1. Intra-household decision-
making processes: What the
qualitative and quantitative
data tell us
Seeds of Change Conference, April 2-4, 2019
Juliana Muriel, CIAT
Jennifer Twyman, CIAT
Diksha Arora, CIAT
Wendy Godek, Roger Williams University
Maria A. Garcia, Michigan State University
j.Muriel@cgiar.org
2. Why are we interested in intra-household decision-making?
• To understand household gender relations and how these shape
agricultural decisions.
• To better target development projects and interventions to achieve a
variety of agricultural development outcomes.
• Women’s empowerment women’s participation in decision-making.
• Productivity and sustainability technology adoption and farm management
practices.
• Decisions can be made by an individual male, individual female or
jointly by couples or different members of the family.
3. Study objective and methods
• Objective:
• Understand intra-household decision-making patterns on family farms.
• Data:
• Qualitative and quantitative data to classify household decision-making processes.
• Focus on households with couples in two sites of Latin America: Cauca, Colombia and
Tuma La Dalia, Nicaragua
• Intra-household gender survey.
• Colombia (2014): 198 households (125 partnered)
• Nicaragua (2015): 270 households (206 partnered)
• Semi-structured interviews with female-male couples.
• Colombia (2017): 18 couples
• Nicaragua (2017): 10 couples
4. Which type of decisions did we consider?
Type of decisions
Agricultural decisions
- Agricultural practices.
- CSA adoption
- Agricultural investments
Household decisions
- Income decisions.
- Daily expenses.
- Children expenses.
5. Quantitative findings: Type of decisions, Colombia
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Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men
Agricultural
decisions
CSA adoption
decision
Agricultural
investments
Income decision Daily expenses
decisions
Children expenses
decisions
Percentageofhouseholds
joint DM wife dominates husband dominates others
6. Qualitative findings: Joint decision-making typologies
Typology Colombia Nicaragua
The man makes the decision (no discussion) X
The man informs the woman before making the decision, and the woman
conforms to what he says
X
The man informs the woman before the fact, but he does not consider the
woman’s opinion
X
The man considers the woman’s opinion, but makes the final decision X X
The woman considers the man’s opinion, but makes the decision herself X
The man and woman exchange opinions and make a decision together X X
The man and woman exchange their opinions with other family members
and make the decision as a family
X X
7. Colombia
• Joint decisions are characterized as a
conversation, an agreement, and a way
to support each other.
• Individual decision is a conversation with
no agreement or when one spouse acts
without informing the other spouse.
• Men and women tended to view
individual decisions negatively (create
conflict) and joint decisions positively
(more equitable).
Nicaragua
• Joint decision-making implies reaching an
agreement, typically through dialogue.
• Individual decisions is one made without
consulting one’s spouse.
• Men and women had slightly different
views of individual and joint decisions. The
differences were mainly predicated on
men’s concern with conflict generated by
not making decisions together.
Qualitative findings: Perceptions of joint and individual decisions
8. Agricultural decisions
Typology Households
(n=123)
Asymmetric in agricultural activities and
CSA adoption and did not make agriculture
investments.
46%
Husband dominates in all the three
decisions (agriculture, CSA adoption and
agriculture investments.)
31%
Joint decisions in agricultural activities and
CSA adoption and asymmetric in
agriculture investments.
22%
Wife dominates in agricultural activities
and agriculture investments.
0.2%
Household decisions
Typology Households
(n=123)
Asymmetric in child and daily expenditures
and use of income.
52%
Joint decisions in child expenditures, daily
expenditures and use of income decisions.
32%
Husband dominates in child and daily
expenditures decisions.
16%
Quantitative findings: Decision-making typologies in Colombia
9. Qualitative findings
• Conventional gender norms
• Men’s and women’s role in decision-making highly correspond to conventional gender norms.
• Men as head of households and making decisions about agriculture and the farm.
• Women were responsible for domestic and care work, generally making decisions about food.
• Spousal discord regarding farm and non-farm related activities.
• Women reported that men made most agricultural decisions.
• On the contrary, men reported agricultural decisions as being made jointly, thus perceiving that his spouse had a
greater role in the process than she herself perceived.
10. Conclusion / Next Steps
Quantitative and qualitative results suggest
• Men and women have different perceptions of how decisions are
made.
• In some households decision-making roles seem to follow traditional
gender norms; in others there is more disagreement about how
decisions are made, and others are more egalitarian, making many
decisions jointly.
Next steps: Explore relationships between these typologies, other
household characteristics, and ag development outcomes (technology
adoption, productivity, nutrition, etc).
11. gender.cgiar.org
We would like to acknowledge all CGIAR Research Programs
and Centers for supporting the participation of their gender
scientists to the Seeds of Change conference.
Photo: Neil Palmer/IWMI
Hinweis der Redaktion
Decision making is crucial to … Intra-hh DM help us …
HHs make many decisions and each one of these decisions can be made in different ways. Sometimes they are made individually by a man or woman while at other times they are made jointly by …
Therefore, our study tries to explore these patterns of DM across different kinds of decisions.
In quantitative analysis we considered decisions about agricultural activities --which include decisions about …. and household decisions that include decisions related to the use of income …
Each one of the six categories includes various decisions. For example, among agricultural practices we asked about decisions related to crop choice, land preparation methods, and use of fertilizer, among others.
We aggregated them based on who makes the majority of those decisions.
In the qualitative analysis we only included farm-related activities.
Men and women report differently who makes the decision about what
An overall trend:
Husband alone dominates in ag decisions (blue bars)
While hh decisions are mainly done jointly (gray bars)
In general, men report that they alone make ag decisions, while women are more likely to report joint decisions.
So we wanted to better understand how men and women perceive joint decision-making processes using the qualitative data. When we look at it we found…
Quantitative and qualitative data suggest that men and women have different perceptions of how joint decisions are made.
Even though men and women have different perceptions about how decisions are made, the qualitative research suggests that they have similar ideas about what joint (and individual) decisions mean.
The majority of individuals interviewed agreed that one of the defining characteristics of a joint decision is agreement…
And individual decisions are made when one makes a decision without consulting their spouse or when a decision is made without agreement.
To explore intra-household decision-making more, we are currently looking at whether there are patterns related to how different decisions are made.
Using the quantitative data, we create household typologies of agricultural and household-management decisions.
Applying multiple correspondence analysis, we reduce the dimensions of the three different questions in each agricultural and household-management decisions. And then we employ the cluster analysis to create typologies.
For agricultural decision-making, the results show…
These results seem to be correlated with the qualitative analysis
In addition, the qualitative findings regarding spousal discord suggest that
women generally reported that men made most agricultural decisions.
There is still work to be done in this area to explore relationships between household decision-making typologies and other household characteristics, and how these relate to different agricultural development outcomes (i.e…).
We hope this type of analysis will provide insight into how to better design and implement agricultural development projects to achieve dual goals of agricultural development and gender equality.