Women Gender information needs in Distrito Federal, Brazil: a survey results

• Autor(a) principal: Caribé, Rita de Cássia do Vale
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Pinto, Alejandra Aguilar, Diogenes, Fabiene Castelo Branco
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8635039
• topic: User information needs. User studies. Woman gender.; Estudo de usuário; Necessidade de informação; Gênero mulher

This study may be considered an information user needs study. It reports results of a survey conducted in Distrito Federal (DF), Brazil. Its objective was identifying the information needs and use of women, and was used a random sample of 37 interviews structured. Includes brief literature review on user studies with the goal of identifying the needs and use of information by different individuals categories; shows the evolution of user studies of quantitative and qualitative methodology and approach; and the need and use of information from the woman gender studies. In this research the importance degrees of some topics, sources and instruments that are interested to the wife of DF and gradation of frequency of use were identified, were analyzed the relationship of these sources preferably with the profile of education, age and income.