3.4 Estimating the prevalence of physical violence in the VACS
Welcome to Section 3.4 How to construct physical violence variable!
Jodie Pearlman, Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Jodie describes how physical violence is measured in the VACS, how to construct the variables in the VACS, how to estimate its prevalence, and how to interpret the results.
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 physical violence using VACS datasets
Flynn-O'Brien, K.T. et al. (2015) Prevalence of physical violence against children in Haiti: A national population-based cross-sectional survey. Child Abuse Neglect, 51: 154-62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chia...
Nyandwi, A. et al. (2002) Predictors of physical violence against children in Rwanda: findings from a National Cross-Sectional Survey. BMC Public Health, 22: 2375. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889...
VACS also measure the perpetration of physical violence which you can find in the questionnaires and in the VACS datasets.
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
