Percentage of ever-married women age 15-49 and never-married women age 15-49 who have ever had an intimate partner who have experienced spousal emotional violence ever or in the 12 months preceding the survey by their current or most recent husbands/partners.
Coverage:
Population base: All women age 15-49 selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module (v044 = 1) who report being ever-married or ever having had an intimate partner (v502 in 1:2 or d100 in 1:2) (IR file)
Time period: Current status at time of survey
Numerators:
1) Number of women who say “yes” to ever experiencing one or more of the following acts of emotional violence by their husbands/intimate partners:
a) Said or did something to humiliate her in front of others (d103a in 1:4)
b) Threatened to hurt or harm her or someone she cared about (d103b in 1:4)
c) Insulted her or made her feel bad about herself (d103c in 1:4)
d) Any emotional violence (any of d103a, b, c in 1:4)
2) Number of women who say “often” or “sometimes” when, for each act of intimate partner emotional violence that they said they have ever experienced, they are asked how frequently this happened during the past 12 months:
a) Often (d103a, b, c = 1)
b) Sometimes (d103a, b, c = 2)
c) Ever in the past 12 months (d103a, b, c in 1:2)
Denominator: Number of ever-married women age 15-49 and never-married women age 15-49 who have ever had an intimate partner selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module (v044 = 1 & (v502 in 1:2 or d100 in 1:2) )
Variables: IR file.
|
v044 |
Selected for Domestic Violence module |
|
v502 |
Currently/formerly/never in union |
|
d100 |
Ever had an intimate relationship with a man |
|
d103a |
Ever been humiliated by husband/partner |
|
d103b |
Ever been threatened with harm by husband/partner |
|
d103c |
Ever been insulted or made to feel bad by husband/partner |
|
d005 |
Weight for Domestic Violence |
Numerator divided by denominator, multiplied by 100.
Women with missing information on one or more of the questions used for the indicator are included in the denominator but not the numerator.
Ever-married women include women who have ever had a partner who they lived with as-if married. For women who have had one or more husbands/intimate partners, only violence by the most recent husband/intimate partner is included.
The percentage of women who have experienced each specific act of physical violence can also be calculated using the same logic: in the numerator are women who say “yes” to ever experiencing the act as a proportion of all women with a husband/intimate partner. Similarly, the percentage of women who have experienced any specific act of intimate partner sexual violence at all in the past 12 months are the proportion of all ever-married women and never-married women who say that they experienced the specific act “frequently” or “sometimes” in the past 12 months.
This indicator was measured based on only two questions between about 2000 and 2005; thereafter, a third act of emotional violence was added to the domestic violence module. Additionally, in some countries, minor modifications to the wording of each kind of act specified are sometimes made and, in some countries, additional acts may be asked about. Always, but especially when making comparisons over time, users are strongly advised to check the questions used in each survey.
In some surveys before 2011, widowed women were asked about ever experience of spousal physical violence but were excluded from the questions on violence during the 12 months preceding the survey. This filter was removed in 2010-11.
From 2021, the questions on what used to be called spousal emotional violence are also asked of never-married women who report an intimate partner. Hence the labeling of the violence variables is no longer spousal emotional violence but intimate partner emotional violence.
See References for this chapter.
DHS-8 Tabulation plan: Tables DV.9, DV.11, and DV.12
API Indicator IDs:
DV_FSVL_W_EMT, DV_FSVL_W_HUM, DV_FSVL_W_HRT, DV_FSVL_W_BAD, DV_SPVL_W_EMT