3.3 Estimating the prevalence of violence in the VACS: How to construct violence variables
Welcome to Section 3.3 Estimating the prevalence of violence in the VACS: How to construct violence variables!
Amiya Bhatia, Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
Amiya takes you through five steps to construct violence variables in the VACS. To estimate the prevalence of violence, you will need to define:
The population violence is being measured among (e.g., young women)
The types of violence you are interested in measuring (e.g., physical and sexual violence)
The perpetrators of violence (e.g., violence from any perpetrator)
The timing of violence (e.g., past year)
The numerator and denominator of the violence variable being constructed
More resources on how to measure violence against children
Measuring Violence Against Children: From Concept to Action. A short course by SVRI. https://svri.thinkific.com/cou...
You can explore VACS data from multiple countries through the interactive VACS Data Dashboard.
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
