Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers (2011) / Chapter Skim
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213 What Do Existing Household Surveys Tell Us About Gender and Transportation in Developing Countries? Julie Babinard and Kinnon Scott, The World Bank Access to affordable, reliable, and safe transportation is critical in improving the welfare of individuals in developing countries.
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214 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 multiple rounds of a survey that are needed for trend analysis. other sources of data need to be found if policy makers in developing countries are to incorporate gender considerations into transport policy.
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215GeNDeR AND TRANSPoRTATIoN IN DeveloPING CouNTRIeS Quality and Security Concerns Studies have revealed that women are more willing than men to use public transport, independent of their car access, particularly if public transport can be provided in a clean, comfortable, and regular fashion with citywide coverage (okoko 2007)
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216 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 the 1990 World Summit for Children.8 A second round was done in 2000 and a third was done in 2005–2006. More than 100 countries implemented MICS in the third round.
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217GeNDeR AND TRANSPoRTATIoN IN DeveloPING CouNTRIeS can show how much a person spent on local bus trips during the week but not how many trips were taken. other HBS–IeS with individual diaries may not have this limitation.
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218 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 (school, work, market, social engagements) are done by using different forms of transportation.
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219GeNDeR AND TRANSPoRTATIoN IN DeveloPING CouNTRIeS within the context of the World Bank's website on lSMS surveys,13 all individuals attending school were asked questions about the type of transportation used to get to school and, in many cases, the amount of money spent on school-related transportation. Questions on educationrelated transportation are typically asked of individuals of primary-school age and older and are conditioned on whether the individual attends school.
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220 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 use, individuals who self-report illness or injury in the time before the survey but who did not seek health care are asked why they did not do so: transport difficulties are options to this question. The Bosnia and Herzegovina lSMS survey17 shows that women pay significantly more than men for transport to health care, while in Panama the differences between genders are insignificant (Table 6)
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221GeNDeR AND TRANSPoRTATIoN IN DeveloPING CouNTRIeS Quality of Transport None of the surveys reviewed provided information on the quality or safety of various transportation options, which tend to play an important role in a woman's decision to travel and in her overall mobility. conclusions and recoMMendaTions In-depth transportation surveys cannot be replaced by alternative data sources: data needs for assessing how gender and transport interact to affect access and mobility are too great to be covered in multitopic surveys or in those with a specific focus on another topic.
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222 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 nities to analyze gender and transport. National statistical systems are increasingly likely to have georeferenced road networks and many countries have administrative data on public transportation, such as routes and costs, that could be linked to the household survey data based on geography.
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223GeNDeR AND TRANSPoRTATIoN IN DeveloPING CouNTRIeS appendix a examples of questions from household surveys are shown in Table A-1. TABLE A-1 Household Survey Questions LSMS Survey MICS education What is the distance to the kindergarten where [CHIlD's NAMe]
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224 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 acknoWledGMenT The authors thank vanessa Moreira for her research assistance. references Anand, A., and G
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