3.5 Estimating the prevalence of sexual violence in the VACS
Welcome to Section 3.5 How to construct sexual violence variables!
Daisy Chelangat, Research Associate, Aga Khan University
Daisy describes how sexual violence is measured in the VACS, how to construct the variables and how to 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 sexual violence using VACS datasets
Stark, L. et al. (2020) Perpetration of intimate partner violence and mental health outcomes: sex- and gender- disaggregated associations among adolescents and young adults in Nigeria. Journal of Global Health, 10(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.1...
Velloza, J. et al. (2022) Disclosure and help-seeking behaviors related to sexual and physical violence in childhood and adolescence: Results from the Namibia Violence Against Children and Youth Survey. Child Abuse Neglect, 128: 105624. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chia...
VACS also measure the perpetration of sexual violence which you can find in the questionnaires.
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
