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 sexual violence ever or in the 12 months preceding the survey by their current or most recent husband/intimate partner.
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 sexual violence perpetrated by their husbands/intimate partners:
a) Physically forced her to have sexual intercourse with him when she did not want to (d105h in 1:4)
b) Physically forced her to perform any other sexual acts she did not want to (d105k in 1:4)
c) Forced her with threats or in any other way to perform sexual acts she did not want to (d105i in 1:4)
d) Any sexual violence (any of d105h, i, k in 1:4)
2) Number of women who say “often” or “sometimes” when, for each act of intimate partner sexual violence that they said they have ever experienced, they are asked how frequently this happened during the past 12 months:
a) Often (d105h, i, k = 1)
b) Sometimes (d105h, i, k = 2)
c) Ever in the past 12 months (d105h, i, k 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 |
|
d105h |
Ever been physically forced into unwanted sex by husband/partner |
|
d105i |
Ever been forced into other unwanted sexual acts by husband/partner |
|
d105k |
Ever been physically forced to perform sexual acts respondent didn't want to |
|
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 sexual 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 ever-married women. 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 “often” or “sometimes” in the past 12 months.
In the past, sexual violence by a current or most recent husband/partner was measured based on only two specified acts of sexual violence. More recently, there were changes made to the wording of the acts and an additional act of sexual violence was added. However, since the third act was originally subsumed under the earlier two, the changes in wording and the addition of third act does not seem to affect the indicator.
In some surveys before 2011, widowed women were asked about ever experience of spousal sexual 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 sexual violence are also asked of never-married women who report an intimate partner. Hence the labeling of the violence variables is no longer spousal sexual violence but intimate partner sexual violence.
See References for this chapter.
DHS-8 Tabulation plan: Tables DV.9, DV.11, and DV.12
API Indicator IDs:
DV_FSVL_W_SEX, DV_FSVL_W_FRC, DV_FSVL_W_ACT, DV_FSVL_W_SXO, DV_SPVL_W_SEX