Codes and Frequencies
Description
For women who were randomly selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and were ever married or lived with a man, DVPKNIFETHFQ reports how often the woman was threatened with a knife, gun, or other weapon by her husband/partner in the past 12 months.
Many samples that asked specifically about threats with a weapon included a second question about a partner's attacks with a weapon in the past 12 months, with responses in the variable DVPKNIFEUSEF.
Another group of samples, which contain the variable DVPKNFTHUSEF, asked about either threats or attacks with a weapon from a partner in the past 12 months.
Comparability — Index
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Comparability
There are universe differences that limit the comparability of DVPKNIFETHFQ across samples. Only those countries with substantial comparability issues for this variable are discussed below.
Maximizing the number of samples analyzed to study intimate partner violence with a weapon in the past year requires counting all women with an affirmative answer to any of the following three variables: DVPKNFTHUSEF, DVPKNIFETHFQ, and DVPKNIFEUSEF. This approach does not allow the analyst to distinguish between threats and attacks with a weapon in the past 12 months.
Comparability - Standard DHS
DVPKNIFETHFQ is neither included in the standard DHS questionnaire for any phase, nor in any phase of the standard domestic violence module.
Comparability — Egypt [top]
The universe for the Egypt 2005 sample includes only those women who have ever been threatened with a weapon by their husband. As a consequence, the category "Not threatened with knife/gun" is not available for that sample. For all other samples, "Not threatened with knife/gun" indicates that the woman had never been threatened with a weapon by her husband/partner.
To achieve comparability across all samples, analysts may wish to recode DVPKNIFETHFQ for Egypt 2005 so that persons who have a "No" response in DVPKNIFETH are coded in DVPKNIFETHFQ as "Not threatened with knife/gun" (code 0) rather than "Not in universe" (code 99).
Universe
- Burkina Faso 2010: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and who have ever been married or lived with a man.
- Cameroon 2011: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and who have ever been married or lived with a man.
- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2007: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and who have ever been married or lived with a man.
- Cote d'Ivoire 2011: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and who have ever been married or lived with a man.
- Egypt 2005: Ever-married women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and whose husband has ever threatened them with a knife, gun, or other type of weapon.
- Jordan 2007: Ever-married women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module.
- Mali 2018: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and who have ever been married or lived with a man.
- Togo 2013: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and who have ever been married or lived with a man.
- Zimbabwe 2005: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and who have ever been married or lived with a man.
