Domestic Violence Survey, 2005

West Bank and Gaza, 2005 - 2006

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Reference ID

PSE-PCBS-DVS-2005-V1.0

Producer(s)

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Collections

Household Violence

Metadata

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Dec 24, 2019

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Dec 24, 2019

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Your husband was very sick or had a serious injury and had to be admitted to hospital during the year. (WB08B)

Data file: Data for Never married women

Overview

Valid: 3566

Valid (weighted): 3532.038

Invalid: 221

Invalid (weighted): 254.962

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V118

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Specify whether you, your husband, or your household have experienced any of these circumstances.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Yes	557	560	14.8%
2	No	2991	2954	78%
3	I don't know	3	2	0.1%
4	Not applicable	15	16	0.4%
Sysmiss		221	255

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

The code of the answer should be noted by selecting the appropriate number below.

Women married before January 1, 2005 should be asked the questions about current year and the questions about the years preceding the survey; however, women with a date of marriage in 2005 should be asked the questions about current year only.

Description

Definition

Domestic violence Violence is any act or intended act of a household member against another member for the purpose of causing psychological or physical harm or any other types of pain and abuse. The study discussed different types of psychological, physical, and sexual violence practiced by the household members against each other. It is worth mentioning that other sources use terms like abuse, assault, and aggression and other terms and concepts to describe different types of violence and harm-causing. The concepts may slightly differ; however, they mean the same with respect to causing harm, psychological, and physical assaults. The study uses the term violence to illustrate all types of assaults and harm-causing.

Universe

·Ever-married women aged (15-64) Years
·Children aged (5-17) Years
·Unmarried women aged (18 years and over)
·Elderly 65 years and Over

Source of information

Person from household

Imputation and derivation

Imputation

Field data checks was done in two stages; the supervisor would edit the completed questionnaire in the field before it was sent to an editor who would send the questionnaire back to the filed for correcting mistakes if any mistakes were found

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