Profiling domestic violence: a multi-country study.

This study uses household and individual-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program to examine the prevalence and correlates of domestic violence and the health consequences of domestic violence for women and their children. Nationally representative data from nine countries—Cambodia (2000) Colombia (2000) the Dominican Republic (2002) Egypt (1995) Haiti (2000) India (1998- 1999) Nicaragua (1998) Peru (2000) and Zambia (2001-2002)—are analyzed within a comparative framework to provide a multifaceted analysis of the phenomenon of domestic violence. Scientific investigation of the problem of domestic violence is a relatively recent endeavor. It is only within the past 30 years that violence…