Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of 283 women aged over 16 y and living in Tuzla Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina who experienced no domestic violence and victims of domestic violence at the time of study

	No. (%) of women who
Characteristic	experienced no domestic violence (n = 68)	experienced domestic violence (n = 215)	total	P*
Age:
16-25	6 (8.8)	9 (4.2)	15 (5.3)	0.136
26-35	21 (30.9)	26 (12.1)	47 (16.6)	<0.001
36-45	24 (35.3)	65 (30.2)	89 (31.4)	0.433
46-55	15 (22.1)	97 (45.1)	112 (39.6)	<0.001
>56	2 (2.9)	18 (8.4)	20 (7.1)	0.127
Education:
none	1 (1.5)	31 (14.4)	32 (11.3)	0.003
elementary school	10 (14.7)	70 (32.6)	80 (28.2)	0.004
high school	42 (61.8)	96 (44.6)	138 (48.8)	0.013
university	15 (22.0)	18 (8.4)	33 (11.7)	0.002
Employment:
employed	60 (88.2)	104 (48.4)	164 (58.0)	<0.001
unemployed	4 (5.9)	36 (16.7)	40 (14.1)	0.025
housewives	4 (5.9)	61 (28.4)	65 (23.0)	<0.001
retired	0	14 (6.5)	14 (4.9)	0.034
Marital status:
unmarried	14 (20.6)	10 (4.7)	24 (8.5)	<0.001
married	48 (70.6)	108 (50.3)	156 (55.1)	0.003
divorced	0	11 (5.1)	11 (3.9)	0.057
married but living separated	0	42 (19.5)	42 (14.8)	<0.001
widows	5 (7.3)	22 (10.2)	27 (9.5)	0.481
re-married	1 (1.5)	5 (2.3)	6 (2.1)	0.669
living out of wedlock	0	17 (7.9)	17 (6.1)	0.016
Children:
none	18 (26.5)	24 (11.2)	42 (14.8)	0.001
one	12 (17.6)	42 (19.5)	54 (19.1)	0.729
two	34 (50.0)	110 (51.2)	144 (50.9)	0.867
three an more	4 (5.9)	39 (18.1)	43 (15.2)	0.014
Monthly income (€):
none	9 (13.3)	93 (43.3)	102 (36.1)	<0.001
<125	12 (17.6)	52 (24.2)	64 (22.6)	0.261
<300	44 (64.7)	59 (27.4)	103 (36.4)	<0.001
>300	3 (4.4)	11 (5.1)	14 (4.9)	0.815

*χ² test.