Enid Schatz

Research Associate,
University of Colorado, Population Program & Population Aging Center, Institute of Behavioral Science
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
University of Colorado, Department of Sociology

Geographic Focus:
Africa
South Africa

Projects
Household Level Effects of HIV/AIDS Mortality and the Gogo (Grandmother) Project are two interconnected projects that grew out of two years I spent as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). The first project makes use of previously collected quantitative and qualitative data from the Agincourt Health and Population Unit (AHPU) study site in the rural northeast of South Africa. The main focus of this project is to understand gendered and generational dynamics in households relating to HIV/AIDS. (See project write-up for a description of proposed analyses). For the Gogo Project, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 60 women aged 60-75 living in the AHPU study site. A major component of this study was the training of a Wits PhD student, Catherine Ogunmefun, in qualitative fieldwork.

Related Publications

Madhavan S, and Schatz E. 2005. Household Structural and Compositional Change in the Agincourt Sub-District: 1992-2003. POP2005-09, PAC 2005-07. CU Institute of Behavioral Science Population Program & Population Aging Center Working Paper. [Full Text]

Schatz E. 2005. Taking Care of My Own Blood: Older Women’s Relationships to their Households in the Agincourt Sub-District. POP2005-08, PAC 2005-06. CU Institute of Behavioral Science Population Program & Population Aging Center Working Paper.

Schatz E, and Ogunmefun C. 2005. Caring and Contributing: The Role of Older Women in Multi-generational Households in the HIV/AIDS era. POP2005-04, PAC 2005-03. CU Institute of Behavioral Science Population Program & Population Aging Center Working Paper. [Full Text]


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