Table 3.
Prevalence of wife abuse during marital arguments (n=21 husbands, 25 wives)
| Husbands’ reports (n=37 abusive events) | Wives’ reports (n=87 abusive events) | Combined reports (n=124 abusive events) | |||||||
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| Past year (n=12) | Other years (n=25) | Total (% totala) | Past year (n=30) | Other years (n=57) | Total (% totala) | Past year (n=42) | Other years (n=82) | Total (% totala) | |
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| Type of argument precipitating wife abuse | # events (# men) | # events (# women) | # events (# individuals) | ||||||
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| Wife is jealous with husband | 5 (3) | 9 (7) | 14 (37.8) | 14 (6) | 26 (13) | 40 (46.0) | 19 (9) | 35 (20) | 54 (43.5) |
| Husband’s use of money | 5 (1) | 3 (3) | 8 (21.6) | 5 (3) | 1 (1) | 6 (6.9) | 10 (4) | 4 (4) | 14 (11.3) |
| Husband drinks too much | ----- | 3 (2) | 3 (8.1) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 2 (2.3) | 1 (1) | 4 (3) | 5 (4.0) |
| Husband does not hunt/fish | ----- | 1 (1) | 1 (2.7) | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | 1 (1) | 1 (0.8) |
| Husband does not work in field | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 2 (5.4) | ----- | 1 (1) | 1 (1.1) | 1 (1) | 2 (2) | 3 (2.4) |
| Husband is jealous with wife | ----- | 5 (3) | 5 (13.5) | 2 (2) | 14 (7) | 16 (18.4) | 2 (2) | 19 (10) | 21 (16.9) |
| Wife does not care for joint child | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 2 (5.4) | 1 (1) | 4 (3) | 5 (5.7) | 2 (2) | 5 (4) | 7 (5.6) |
| Wife lives far from natal kin | ----- | ----- | ----- | 2 (1) | 1 (1) | 3 (3.4) | 2 (1) | 1 (1) | 3 (2.4) |
| Wife visits natal kin too often | ----- | 1 (1) | 1 (2.7) | 1 (1) | ----- | 1 (1.1) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 2 (1.6) |
| Husband does not care for joint child | ----- | ----- | ----- | 1 (1) | ----- | 1 (1.1) | 1 (1) | ----- | 1 (0.8) |
| Wife does not cook/wash clothes | ----- | ----- | ----- | 2 (2) | 3 (3) | 5 (5.7) | 2 (2) | 3 (3) | 5 (4.0) |
| Wife does not want to have sex | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | 2 (1) | 2 (2.3) | ----- | 2 (1) | 2 (1.6) |
| Husband is wage laboring too often | ----- | 1 (1) | 1 (2.7) | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | 1 (1) | 1 (0.8) |
| Wife does not work in field | ----- | ----- | ----- | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 2 (2.3) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 2 (1.6) |
| Wife is “unattractive” or sterile | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | 3 (2) | 3 (3.4) | ----- | 3 (2) | 3 (2.4) |
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Total ≠ 100 due to rounding error