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Table 3 Prevalence of past-year reproductive coercion items, by site, among married or partnered women in need of contraception

From: Prevalence and correlates of reproductive coercion across ten sites: commonalities and divergence

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Burkina Faso (nā€‰=ā€‰2767)

CĆ“te d'Ivoire (nā€‰=ā€‰1561)

Kongo Central DRCa (nā€‰=ā€‰830)

Kinshasa DRCa (nā€‰=ā€‰846)

Kenya (nā€‰=ā€‰4588)

Kano Nigeriaa (nā€‰=ā€‰535)

Lagos Nigeriaa (nā€‰=ā€‰612)

Niger (nā€‰=ā€‰1525)

Rajasthan, India (nā€‰=ā€‰3017)

Uganda (nā€‰=ā€‰2020)

1. Made you feel bad or treated you badly for wanting to use a family planning method

5.3

3.9

14.5

7.0

4.7

5.0

2.5

1.5

1.7

9.1

2. Tried to force or pressure you to become pregnant

2.2

3.4

11.1

5.3

3.9

2.0

2.9

0.8

1.3

10.6

3. Said he would leave you if you did not get pregnant

1.0

1.5

8.3

2.5

1.8

3.2

1.8

0.7

0.8

7.8

4. Told you he would have a baby with someone else if you did not get pregnant

1.2

1.9

8.8

2.9

1.8

3.1

2.1

0.8

1.0

8.1

5. Took away your family planning or kept you from going to the clinic to get family planning

1.4

1.0

7.4

3.3

1.8

2.1

1.1

1.0

1.8

6.1

6. Hurt you physically because you did not get pregnantb

0.5

0.6

ND

ND

1.2

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

Past-year reproductive coercion experienceb

7.1

6.2

20.3

11.9

7.0

5.7

5.0

3.1

3.9

16.9

Mean (SD), among those experiencing reproductive coercionb

1.62 (0.97)

1.84 (1.67)

2.13 (1.37)

1.78 (1.13)

2.01 (1.30)

2.38 (1.42)

1.90 (1.35)

1.70 (1.13)

1.67 (1.09)

2.47 (1.46)

  1. aRegionally representative
  2. bItem six not included in past-year estimates for comparability across all sites