Citation

Vanderende KE, Sibley LM, Cheong YF, Naved RT, Yount KM. Violence Against Women 2015; 21(6): 679-699.

Affiliation

Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801215576938

PMID

25845617

Abstract

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.

Language: en