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. 2007 May;97(5):941–947. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.079020

TABLE 2—

Weighted Estimates of Violence Occurrence for Reciprocally and Nonreciprocally Violent Relationships, Overall and by Gender: Young Adults Aged 18–28 Years, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, United States, 2001

Variable Overall, no. (%) N = 18 761 Men, no. (%) n = 8531 Women, no. (%) n = 10 230
All relationships
    Nonviolent 14 152 (76.1) 6 897 (80.7) 7 255 (71.6)
    Violent 4 609 (23.9) 1 634 (19.3) 2 975 (28.4)
Among violent relationships
    Reciprocal IPV 2 270 (49.7) 738 (46.9) 1 532 (51.5)
    Nonreciprocal IPV 2 339 (50.3) 896 (53.1) 1 443 (48.5)
Among cases with nonreciprocal IPV
    Perpetrated by men 670 (29.3) 232 (25.1) 438 (32.3)
    Perpetrated by women 1 669 (70.7) 664 (74.9) 1 005 (67.7)

Notes. IPV = intimate partner violence. Percentages reflect weighted estimates of the distribution of the variables for the US young adult population.