Citation

Waltermaurer EM, Ortega CA, McNutt LA. J. Interpers. Violence 2003; 18(9): 959-974.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, State University of New York, New Paltz, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260503255283

PMID

19771704

Abstract

This study examines the potential implications of household interviews on participation bias for estimates of intimate partner violence (IPV). Using a variety of scales, IPV prevalence for the 135 women interviewed in a street-intercept survey was compared with the IPV prevalence of a subsample of these women who reported willingness to participate in a household survey with their partner in another room or when their partner also would be interviewed. A potential self-selection bias showed an 8% to 13% deflated prevalence of moderate to highly abused women and a 8% to 11% inflated prevalence of nonabused women among this subsample who would willingly participate in a household survey. Understanding who is included in household surveys, and who is not, is essential to compute and interpret national prevalence estimates for IPV.

Language: en