DVPKNIFEUSEF
(DVPKNIFEUSEF)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, DVPKNIFEUSEF reports how often the woman was attacked with a knife, gun, or other weapon by their husband/partner in the past 12 months.
Many samples that asked specifically about attacks with a weapon included another question about a partner's threats with a weapon in the past 12 months, with responses in the variable DVPKNIFETHFQ.
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
Comparability
There are universe differences that limit the comparability of DVPKNIFEUSEF across samples. Only those countries with serious 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.
Response categories for DVPKNIFEUSEF also vary across samples.
Harmonized coding in the IPUMS-DHS variable DVPKNIFEUSEF were constructed to accommodate differences in frequencies reported across surveys. The major categories are:
- 100: Yes, husband ever attacked her with knife, gun or other weapon
- 200: Yes, timing and frequency unknown
The second and third digits of DVPKNIFEUSEF's codes distinguish between specific time periods and provide detail only present in some samples.
Comparability - Standard DHS
DVPKNIFEUSEF 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 attacked with a weapon by their husband. As a consequence, the category "Not attacked" is not available for that sample. For all other samples, "Not attacked" indicates that the woman had never been attacked with a weapon by her husband/partner.
To achieve comparability across all samples, analysts may wish to recode DVPKNIFEUSEF for Egypt 2005 so that persons who have a "No" response in DVPKNIFEUSE (D105G) are coded in DVPKNIFEUSEF as "Not attacked" (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.
- Burkina Faso 2021: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and who have ever been married, lived with, or in an intimate relationship with a man.
- Cambodia 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.
- Cambodia 2021: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and who have ever been married, lived with, or in an intimate relationship with a man.
- Colombia 2005: Women age 13-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and who have ever been married or lived with a man.
- Colombia 2010: Women age 13-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and who have ever been married or lived with a man.
- Colombia 2015: Women age 13-49 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 attacked them with a knife, gun, or other type of weapon.
- Ghana 2022: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and who have ever been married, lived with, or in an intimate relationship with a man.
- Jordan 2007: Ever-married women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module.
- Jordan 2023: Ever-married women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module.
- Kenya 2022: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and who have ever been married, lived with, or in an intimate relationship with a man.
- Lesotho 2023: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and who have ever been married, lived with, or in an intimate relationship with a man.
- Mozambique 2022: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and who have ever been married, lived with, or in an intimate relationship with a man.
- Nepal 2022: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and who have ever been married, lived with, or in an intimate relationship with a man.
- Peru 2006: 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.
- Peru 2009: 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.
- Peru 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.
- Peru 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.
- Peru 2012: 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.
- Philippines 2022: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and who have ever been married, lived with, or in an intimate relationship with a man.
- Tanzania 2022: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and who have ever been married, lived with, or in an intimate relationship 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.
