Violence Against Women – the Zambian situation

1. Violence Against Women – the Zambian situation Central Statistical Office (CSO) Zambia By Cecilia M. Munjita UN Workshop on Integrating Gender into Statistics 4-7 December 2012, Kampala, Uganda

2. Outline • Introduction • Methodology/Challenges • Gender based violence in Zambia by Type of Violence • Physical • Sexual • Emotional • Help seeking behaviour • Property grabbing

3. Introduction • CSO collects GBV statistics mainly though • Zambia Demographic and Health Surveys -(ZDHS) • Zambia Sexual Behaviour Survey • 2006 Gender Based Violence Survey • The presentation includes statistics mainly from the ZDHS and a portion from the 2006 GBV report

4. GDV data collection • The ZDHS included a special module designed to obtain information on the extent to which women in Zambia experience domestic violence • The module focused on the extent of marital violence for females aged 15-45

5. Methodology • The domestic violence module was administered to one eligible woman randomly selected in each household with the use of the Kish grid technique (Kish, 1965). • The module focused on the extent of marital violence, but also obtained information on any physical violence involving perpetrators other than the woman’s current husband (or the last husband for separated or divorced women) that a woman may have experienced since her fifteenth birthday. • Women who reported recent marital violence were asked whether they had ever told anyone about the violence, and whether they ever sought help.

6. challenge • Women not disclosing issues on domestic violence. - Thus field staff received special training on gender based violence; and -Interviews were to be conducted were there was maximum privacy otherwise, the questions in the domestic violence module were not to be asked.

7. Violence Against Women What Statistics Say!

8. Physical Violence by Age Group

9. Physical Violence by Residence

10. Physical Violence by Education

11. Perpetrators of Physical Violence

12. Sexual Violence by Age Group

13. Sexual Violence by Residence

14. Sexual Violence by Level of Education

15. % Who Reported Specific Persons Who Committed the Violence, by Marital Status

16. Experience of Physical Violence During Pregnancy

17. Violence During Pregnancy by Residence

18. Forms of Spousal violence • Percentage of ever married women age 15-49 who have ever experienced violence by their husband/partner by form of violence

19. Forms of Spousal Violence (%)

20. Forms of Spousal Violence by Residence (%)

21. Help Seeking Behavour of Women Who Ever Experienced Violenceby whether they told anyone about the violence or sought help from any source

22. Help Seeking Behaviour by Residence (%)

23. Help Seeking Behaviour by Education (%)

24. % Women Who Experienced Violence and Sought Help, by Source of Help

25. Property Grabbing (GBV Survey 2006)

26. % Distribution of Receipt of Spouse’s Asset/Valuables by Sex and Residence

27. Reasons for not Receiving any Assets by Sex and Residence (%)

28. End of Presentation Thank You!