3.7 Estimating the prevalence of school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) in the VACS
Welcome to Section 3.7 Estimating the prevalence of school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) in the VACS!
Jodie Pearlman, Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Jodie describes how school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is measured in the VACS, how to construct an SRGBV variable, and how to tabulate and interpret the SRGBV variable.
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.
Policy reports and papers on SRBGV
Global Working Group to end School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV) et al. (2023) School violence: why gender matters and how to measure school-related gender-based violence. Access here.
The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) et al. (2015). School-related Gender-based Violence is Preventing the Achievement of Quality Education for All. Access here.
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
