Methodology of the Village Study

Abstract

In this chapter the broad methodology of this longitudinal study is described in order to set the general context for the study, while in each of the following chapters a more detailed methodology is presented as it pertains to the specific study population described therein.

Age reporting of girls was always an area of inaccuracy due to the tendency for parents to underestimate ages of unmarried daughters who, parents believe, should be married at puberty. Thirty percent disagreement was found between parents’ age reporting on the Household Schedule and that reported by the girl herself on the Adolescent Schedule.

(Vlassoff, 1978, p. 73)