Validation of Self-Report of Literacy among Periurban Women in Bolivia
- 1 August 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 22 (4) , 747-748
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/22.4.747
Abstract
Many surveys ask women to rate their literacy level, but the validity of these setf-reports is not usualty evaluatd. In this etucty of infant health, conducted in Cochabamba, Bolivia, maternal literacy was assessed by the mother herself and by the interviewer, bad on the mother's reading a short text aloud. The two ratings were highty correlated (P< 0.001). This finding suggests that maternal self-reports of literacy are very reliable.Keywords
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