Research Article
Disclosure of Intimate Partner Violence and Associated Factors among Victimized Women, Ethiopia, 2018: A Community-Based Study
Table 1
Sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics of respondents (
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| Variables | Category | Frequency | Percent |
| Age of women | 18-24 | 41 | 14.6 | 25-33 | 164 | 58.6 | 34-49 | 75 | 26.8 | Ethnicity | Gedeo | 136 | 48.6 | Oromo | 69 | 24.6 | Amhara | 40 | 14.3 | Gurage | 26 | 9.3 | Other (Silta, Dawuro) | 9 | 3.2 | Religion | Orthodox | 87 | 31.1 | Protestant | 123 | 43.9 | Muslim | 42 | 15 | Catholic | 28 | 10 | Women’s educational status | No education | 28 | 10 | Primary education | 139 | 49.6 | Secondary education | 54 | 19.3 | Postsecondary | 59 | 21.1 | Partner’s educational status | No education | 10 | 3.6 | Primary education | 118 | 42.1 | Secondary education | 86 | 30.7 | Postsecondary | 66 | 23.8 | Women’s occupational status | Housewife | 88 | 31.4 | Daily laborer | 48 | 17.1 | Governmental worker | 65 | 24.9 | Merchant | 38 | 17.4 | Nongovernmental worker | 34 | 9.5 | Others (no job) | 7 | 2.5 | Monthly income in Ethiopian birr | <500 | 13 | 4.6 | 501-1500 | 130 | 46.4 | 1501-2500 | 101 | 36.1 | >2501 | 36 | 12.9 | Partner alcohol use status | Yes | 183 | 65.4 | No | 97 | 34.6 | Marital duration | <10 years | 202 | 72.1 | >11 | 78 | 27.8 |
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