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, DVPKNIFETH indicates whether the woman's husband/partner ever threatened her with a knife, gun, or other weapon.
Samples containing DVPKNIFETH usually, but not always, contain a complementary variable, DVPKNIFEUSE, about whether the woman's partner attacked her with a weapon.
Still other samples ask a single question about the partner threatening or attacking the woman with a weapon; these samples are covered by the variable DVPKNFTHUSE.
Comparability
Apart from universe differences, DVPKNIFETH has no comparability problems.
Maximizing the number of samples analyzed to study intimate partner violence with a weapon requires counting all women with an affirmative answer to any of the following three variables: DVPKNFTHUSE, DVPKNIFETH, and DVPKNIFEUSE. This approach does not allow the analyst to distinguish between threats and attacks with a weapon.
Comparability - Standard DHS
DVPKNIFETH is not included in the standard DHS questionnaire for any phase, but it is included in phase IV of the standard domestic violence module.
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 2004: 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 (except for widows).
- 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.
- Comoros 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.
- 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.
- Gabon 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.
- Gambia 2019: 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.
- India 2019: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and who have ever been in a consummated marriage.
- Jordan 2007: Ever-married women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module.
- Kenya 2003: 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 (except for widows).
- Madagascar 2021: 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.
- Malawi 2004: 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 (except for widows).
- Mali 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.
- 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.
- Rwanda 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.
- Sierra Leone 2019: 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.
