3.6 Estimating the prevalence of emotional violence in the VACS
Welcome to Section 3.6 How to construct emotional violence variables!
Daisy Chelangat, Research Associate, Aga Khan University
Daisy Chelangat, Aga Khan University, describes how emotional violence is measured, how to construct the variables and estimate its prevalence in the VACS.
Access the Stata code used in this session.
This session uses the Côte d’Ivoire VACS dataset for all examples. Request to download a VACS dataset and its related documentation.
You can explore VACS data from multiple countries through the interactive VACS Data Dashboard.
Examples of studies that have examined emotional violence using VACS datasets
Ratto, J. et al. (2023) Prevalence of and factors associated with peer emotional and physical violence among youth ages 13–17 in Côte d’Ivoire. Child Abuse & Neglect, 145. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chia...
Nyandwi, A., Munyanshongore, C., Nyirazinyoye, L., Ndola, P., & Perren-Klingler, G. (2023). Correlates of emotional violence against children in Rwanda: Findings from a cross-sectional national survey. PLOS ONE, 18(6), e0286788. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journa...
Explore Section 3:
- 3.1 Overview of VACS survey sampling and design
- 3.2 Overview of VACS constructs, and possible research questions
- 3.3 Estimating the prevalence of violence in the VACS: How to construct violence variables
- 3.4 Estimating the prevalence of physical violence in the VACS
- 3.5 Estimating the prevalence of sexual violence in the VACS
- 3.6 Estimating the prevalence of emotional violence in the VACS
- 3.7 Estimating the prevalence of school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) in the VACS
- 3.8 Conclusions and takeaways
