Does country-level gender equality explain individual risk of intimate partner violence against women? A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) in the European Union.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gender equality is widely accepted as an important explanatory factor for the occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. However, the relationship is not straightforward, as high country-level gender equality is not always associated with lower IPV prevalence. We apply 'multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy' (MAIHDA) to (i) quantify the extent to which the country of residence determines individual risk of IPV and (ii) investigate the association between country-level gender equality and individual experience of IPV, and to which extent this association explains the observed between-country differences.

Methods

Using data from the 2012 European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights survey on violence against wo

SUBMITTER: Ivert AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7183361 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature