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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 353-373Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1077801204272129
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domestic violence; Latin America
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This study draws oil all ecological framework in testing relationships between individual, family, and community characteristics and the likelihood of women experiencing domestic violence in Peru. The sample of 15,991 women was taken from the 2000 Peril Demographic and Health Survey. Logistic regression models revealed that at the individual level, low educational attainment, early union formation, and a violent family background increase a woman's likelihood of abuse. Family-level risk markers include cohabitation, large family size, partner alcohol consumption, employment, and a woman's having higher status than her husband. At the community level, living in a noncoastal area and having an urban residence increase the likelihood of abuse.
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