A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS ON INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN BANGLADESH

S B Sanawar, M A Islam, S Majumder and F Misu
Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 137-142

Abstract:

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the complex issue which is difficult to measure despite its prevalence in the society. Obviously, the existence and its correlates vary from culture to culture. This study aims to investigate the situation of IPV in Bangladesh and identify its correlates using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2007. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was used to identify the correlates of IPV. Data analysis suggests that 50.84% of the respondents were exposed to any type of IPV during their lifetime. Multinomial logistic regression analysis reveals that the women having only boy child and also the women having both types of children (boy and girl) had more likelihood of being affected physically than the childless women when compared with no violence. Furthermore, the likelihood of sexual violence was more for the women having both types of children than the childless respondents. Non-Muslim women had more likelihood of being affected by all types of violence than the Muslim women. The rich women had more likelihood of being suffered by sexual violence than the poorest women. The likelihood of infliction by both physical and sexual violence among the poorest women was less than their counterparts when compared with no violence. The women who were the wives of farmers had more likelihood to suffer from sexual violence, and both physical and sexual violence than the women who were the wives of service holders and businessmen. The primary educated women had less likelihood to experience sexual violence than the uneducated women when compared with no violence. The wives of the primary educated partners had more likelihood to be tortured both physically and sexually than the wives of the uneducated partners.

Keywords:

Intimate partner violence, multinomial logistic regression, demographic and health survey.


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S B Sanawar, M A Islam, S Majumder and F Misu. 2017. A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS ON INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN BANGLADESH, Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University 4(1): 137-142.