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Agency, Resources, and Institutional Structures for Sanitation-related Empowerment (ARISE): Norms

The Norms measure is one of ten total scales in the Agency, Resources, and Institutional Structures for Sanitation-related Empowerment (ARISE) Scales. The measure is intended to capture gendered household roles and responsibilities regarding sanitation. The measure also captures gendered expectations surrounding sanitation upkeep, repairs, and general technical work, as well as norms regarding restrictions on women speaking and participating at sanitation-related meetings. Acceptability of women's participation in community-level sanitation meetings and disagreement with their husbands regarding sanitation issues is captured by this measure too.

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Geographies Tested: India,Uganda

Populations Included: Female

Age Range: Adults

Items:

1. In this community, it is women more often than men who are expected to assume most responsibilities related to maintaining the cleanliness of the sanitation location the family uses.
2. In this community, it is women more often than men who are expected to accompany or support elderly, sick, or disabled family members who cannot urinate or defecate on their own.
3. In this community, it is women more often than men who are expected to accompany or support children in their household when they need to urinate or defecate.
4. In this community, it is women more often than men who are expected to clean feces from their home or household compound from children or other family members.
5. In this community, it is women more often than men who are expected to wash clothes that become dirty as a result of sanitation conditions or accidents.
6. In this community, it is women more often than men who are expected to clean their children after defecation if needed.
7. Even if women were trained, it would be socially unacceptable for women to do construction, repairs, or upgrades for latrines.
8. Technical work, like latrine construction, repairs, or upgrades, should be done by men, not women.
9. Emptying latrine pits should be done by men, not women.
10. At a sanitation-related meeting where both men and women are present, women should only speak when they are asked to do so.
11. At a sanitation-related meeting where both men and women are present, women should only speak after all the men have shared their opinions.
12. At a sanitation-related meeting where both men and women are present, women should not speak.
13. It is appropriate for women to attend sanitation-related meetings where men are present.
14. In this community, it is considered appropriate for a woman to express her opinion about sanitation issues at a community meeting when men are present.
15. It is appropriate for women to discuss sanitation-related issues in front of men.
16. In this community, it is socially acceptable for women to have leadership roles in sanitation-focused committees or organizations.
17. In this community, it is acceptable for a woman to bring a complaint about a sanitation-problem to a local leader.
18. It would be socially acceptable for women to organize an initiative to improve sanitation conditions in the community.
19. If there was a community initiative to improve sanitation, it would be socially acceptable for women to participate.
20. In this community, it is acceptable for a woman to express a different opinion than her husband in a household discussion about sanitation issues.
21. In this community, it is acceptable for a woman to express a different opinion than her husband about sanitation issues in front of people outside the family.

Response Options:
Strongly agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly disagree

Scoring Procedures

Items in the scale are summed. A weighted score is not necessary.

Original Citation

Sinharoy, S. S., McManus, S., Conrad, A., Patrick, M., & Caruso, B. A. (2023). The Agency, Resources, and Institutional Structures for Sanitation-related Empowerment (ARISE) Scales: Development and validation of measures of women's empowerment in urban sanitation for low- and middle-income countries. World Development, 164, 106183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106183


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