TYPES
OF RAPE
Profiling Domestic Violence: A Multi-Country
Study
Sunita Kishor, Kiersten Johnson
Calverton, Maryland: ORC Macro. June 2004
Available online as PDF file [141p.] at:
http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/OD31/DV.pdf
".....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....."