Tip of the iceberg: reporting and gender-based violence in developing countries.

ABSTRACT: Gender-based violence (GBV) is widespread globally and has myriad adverse health effects but is vastly underreported. Few studies address the extent of reporting bias in existing estimates. We provide bounds for underestimation of reporting of GBV to formal and informal sources conditional on having experienced GBV and characterize differences between women who report and those who do not. We analyzed Demographic and Health Survey data from 284,281 women in 24 countries collected between 2004 and 2011. We performed descriptive analysis and multivariate logistic regressions examining characteristics associated with reporting to formal sources. Forty percent of women experiencing GBV previously disclosed to someone; however, only 7% reported to a formal source (regional variation, 2% in Indi

SUBMITTER: Palermo T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3927971 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature