Money, Conflict, and Reciprocity in Rural Families in Zambia: The Case of Female University Students (Final Report)
Abstract
Final Report/Synopsis of Research Results: There is a rich body of literature examining multiple aspects of money in the social sciences yet the role of money in organising and shaping family interactions in the Zambian context appears limited. The aims of this research were to explore money and its link to conflict in the family and develop an understanding of how money is organised in and influenced by culture and gender in rural female students’ families in Zambia. Fifty female undergraduate students at the University of Zambia were selected, using nonprobability snowball sampling, to participate in individual semi-structured interviews. Detailed biographical information was collected alongside responses to open-ended money-related questions. Interviews were transcribed and thematic content analysis was used to identify and analyse themes in the data both within and across the fifty interviews.