Intimate partner violence against married and cohabiting women in sub-Saharan Africa: does sexual autonomy matter?

Aboagye, Richard Gyan; Dadzie, Louis Kobina; Arthur-Holmes, Francis; Okyere, Joshua; Agbaglo, Ebenezer; Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku; Seidu, Abdul-Aziz

doi:10.1186/s12978-022-01382-1

Table 3 Sexual autonomy and physical, emotional, sexual, and intimate partner violence by countries

From: Intimate partner violence against married and cohabiting women in sub-Saharan Africa: does sexual autonomy matter?

Countries	Ever experienced PV		p-values	Ever experienced EV		p-values	Ever experienced SV		p-values	Ever experienced IPV		p-values
Countries	No	Yes	p-values	No	Yes	p-values	No	Yes	p-values	No	Yes	p-values
All countries	23.9	29.2	< 0.001	22.6	27.1	< 0.001	8.3	11.4	< 0.001	33.1	40.5	< 0.001
Central Africa
Angola	24.0	35.2	< 0.001	17.8	30.6	< 0.001	5.7	8.5	0.003	30.1	45.3	< 0.001
Cameroon	27.5	35.5	0.001	23.5	28.6	0.024	6.3	10.4	0.022	35.9	46.0	< 0.001
Chad	19.0	30.5	< 0.001	19.1	27.2	< 0.001	6.4	11.5	< 0.001	27.3	38.9	< 0.001
Congo DR	44.3	44.4	0.791	35.1	34.9	0.867	24.5	24.0	0.517	54.2	57.0	0.485
Gabon	36.7	45.1	0.183	23.2	33.6	0.115	10.9	14.4	0.365	40.3	54.8	0.024
West Africa
Burkina Faso	9.8	11.0	0.187	7.9	9.4	0.090	1.1	1.4	0.431	13.8	15.4	0.128
Cote d’lvoire	18.7	28.7	< 0.001	15.8	20.7	0.010	3.1	6.7	0.001	24.7	35.0	< 0.001
Gambia	15.1	20.7	0.015	11.2	17.0	0.004	1.7	2.7	0.201	19.8	28.3	0.001
Mali	36.6	38.3	0.466	36.9	42.0	0.049	9.6	16.1	< 0.001	47.8	52.5	0.068
Nigeria	15.2	19.3	0.001	29.4	31.3	0.191	6.7	6.6	0.923	32.9	36.4	0.023
Sierra Leone	46.3	50.8	0.131	46.9	44.1	0.357	8.1	7.9	0.900	57.8	61.7	0.148
Togo	21.4	18.8	0.195	32.5	28.1	0.068	9.7	6.5	0.012	37.6	34.1	0.184
East Africa
Burundi	40.6	36.9	0.034	25.1	21.5	0.018	27.7	23.1	0.003	52.1	47.3	0.012
Comoros	3.5	5.2	0.178	6.6	7.8	0.560	1.0	1.8	0.350	7.5	10.7	0.150
Ethiopia	24.5	20.4	0.072	23.2	23.2	0.976	10.0	9.4	0.710	34.3	31.7	0.352
Kenya	29.8	34.6	0.094	21.9	29.9	0.004	7.2	12.5	0.006	35.1	45.0	0.001
Mozambique	18.8	17.3	0.609	13.2	15.1	0.408	3.0	3.3	0.829	23.9	23.3	0.866
Rwanda	30.6	28.4	0.621	21.6	22.2	0.956	18.7	9.2	0.002	40.4	37.1	0.294
Uganda	45.7	36.6	0.001	43.4	37.7	0.057	24.4	21.1	0.187	62.0	52.7	0.002
Southern Africa
Malawi	21.8	24.0	0.290	21.8	26.9	0.018	16.3	18.0	0.364	36.7	39.7	0.207
Namibia	50.3	20.7	0.003	38.2	22.2	0.106	35.5	5.9	< 0.001	58.5	29.9	0.016
South Africa	9.9	14.0	0.136	10.3	16.3	0.022	3.0	3.7	0.708	14.8	23.3	0.010
Zambia	33.4	34.4	0.645	24.0	28.8	0.006	10.9	14.1	0.009	40.7	45.0	0.028
Zimbabwe	29.3	29.3	0.980	27.7	30.5	0.241	8.5	12.0	0.078	40.0	44.5	0.090

Pearson chi-square test was used to obtain p-values
PV physical violence, EV emotional violence, SV sexual violence, IPV intimate partner violence

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