Survey ranking India most dangerous country for women inaccurate: WCD
June 27, 2018 19:02
The women and child development ministry today dismissed as "clearly inaccurate" a survey that ranked India the world's most dangerous country for women, saying the report is based on perception of "unknown persons".
A senior WCD official said the ministry has asked the Thomson Reuters Foundation, which conducted the survey, for details on the experts to ascertain the report's authenticity, but no reply has been received as yet.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation, after a survey of about 550 experts on women's issues, has ranked India the world's most dangerous country for women, followed by war-torn Afghanistan and Syria, due to the high risk of sexual violence.
The WCD said the Reuters used a flawed methodology to arrive at the conclusion.
"The ranking is based on a perception poll based on responses to simply six questions. The results are not derived from any kind of data and are solely based on inherently subjective opinions," the ministry said in a statement.
"Further, the poll has been conducted with 548 respondents, which have been defined by Reuters as experts focused on women's issues'. However, information on their designation, credentials, country of expertise or qualifications is not available thus reliability is an issue," it said.
The methodology given by the organisation also includes policy-makers' as one of the respondents. However, no information or opinion has been sought from this ministry regarding this poll, it added.
"India is far ahead of many countries in most of these areas and has also seen significant improvement in indicators when compared with its own performance in previous years. Therefore, the ranking of India is a surprise and clearly inaccurate," it said.
An Indian woman is in a much better position than a number of women in other countries around the world. Facts clearly show that the opinion of India as the most dangerous country for women is not a reflection of the reality, the statement said.
The poll was conducted online, by phone and in person between March 26 and May 4 with an even spread across Europe, Africa, the Americas, South East Asia, South Asia and the Pacific.
-- PTI
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