ACTGHS low gender equity, adults

Commentary

A low gender equity in relationships score is calculated by summing the responses for the 2 statements "Men should take control in relationships and be the head of the household" and "Women prefer a man to be in charge of the relationship". The scale for both questions is 1 to 5, where 1 is strongly agree and 5 is strongly disagree. A low gender equity score is defined as being <70.

21.4% of respondents to the 2022 ACT General Health Survey had a low gender equity in relationships score. Males were significantly more likely to report a low gender equity score than females (31.9% vs 11.3%).

For the purpose of reporting the ACT General Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.

Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.

Gender equity is collected every third year (2019 and 2022). Respondents are aged 18 years and over (i.e. no children).

Persons includes male, female, other sex and refused sex respondents and may not always add to the sum of male and female.

The score is multiplied by 10, giving it a range of 10-100.

If a respondent did not answer one of the statements, they were excluded from analysis.

Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.

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Proportion of adults aged 18 years and over who had a low gender equity score, ACT General Health Survey, 2019-2022

Data

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Codes and sources

Q. Men should take control in relationships and be the head of the household
Q. Women prefer a man to be in charge of the relationship

Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree or disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree
Don't know
Refused

Don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.

A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found in Data collections.