Community economic status and intimate partner violence against women in bangladesh: compositional or contextual effects?
VanderEnde, K.E.; Sibley, L.M.; Cheong, Y.F.; Naved, R.T.; Yount, K.M.
Violence Against Women 21(6): 679-699
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 1552-8448 PMID: 25845617 DOI: 10.1177/1077801215576938Document Number: 637370
In this research, we used a multi-level contextual-effects analysis to disentangle the household- and community-level associations between income and intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Bangladesh. Our analyses of data from 2,668 women interviewed as part of the World Health Organization (WHO) multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women showed that household income was negatively associated with women's risk of experiencing IPV. Controlling for residence in a low-income household, living in a low-income community was not associated with women's risk of experiencing IPV. These results support a household-level, not community-level, relationship between income and IPV in Bangladesh.