Women's Travel Autonomy

Anchoring Vignettes for Mobility - Women's Autonomy

Questions:

  1. How much power [does name of person/do you] have to travel when and where [name of person/you] want?
Response categories:
  1. A lot
  2. Some
  3. A little
  4. None

Vignettes:

  1. In addition to going to the local market, [Grace] sometimes goes to a larger market in a nearby town, which is about 5 kilometers away. She never asks her husband's permission to go to this market, but he gets suspicious if she goes to the market alone.

  2. [Agnes], who is single, is bored and wants to spend the entire day at a local market where she will meet her friends and socialize. Her parents say she cannot go unless her sister goes with her.

  3. [Jane] wants to visit her parents, who live in another village 20 kilometers away. Her husband agrees, but only if he goes with her.

  4. [Lucy] wants to visit a health clinic to learn about methods of childspacing. She tells her husband that she will be home before dark, but does not tell him where she is going.