Table 3.
Unadjusted and adjusted log odds and odds of giving an affirmative response to the individual attitude question about intimate partner violence against women, n = 496 respondents randomly assigned to the DHS-control question or one of two DHS-modified questions, ever-married women 18 – 49 years in six villages in Bangladesh
| Outcome | Unadjusted |
Adjusted |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covariates | β | p | OR | p>χ2 | β | p | OR | p>χ2 |
| Transgression 1: Goes out without telling him? | ||||||||
| Experimental group (ref: DHS-control ) | ||||||||
| DHS-modified - wife unintentionally transgresses | −2.26 | 0.00 | 0.10 | −2.30 | 0.00 | 0.10 | ||
| DHS-modified - wife willfully transgresses | 0.08 | 0.71 | 1.09 | 0.13 | 0.55 | 1.14 | ||
| HL Goodness-of-fit Test | 1.00 | 0.94 | ||||||
| Transgression 2: Neglects the children? | ||||||||
| Experimental group (ref: DHS-control ) | ||||||||
| DHS-modified - wife unintentionally transgresses | −3.50 | 0.00 | 0.03 | −3.50 | 0.00 | 0.03 | ||
| DHS-modified - wife willfully transgresses | 0.85 | 0.00 | 2.34 | 0.89 | 0.00 | 2.44 | ||
| HL Goodness-of-fit Test | 1.00 | 0.83 | ||||||
| Transgression 3: Argues with him? | ||||||||
| Experimental group (ref: DHS-control ) | ||||||||
| DHS-modified - wife unintentionally transgresses | −5.12 | 0.00 | 0.01 | −5.14 | 0.00 | 0.01 | ||
| DHS-modified - wife willfully transgresses | 0.39 | 0.08 | 1.48 | 0.47 | 0.04 | 1.60 | ||
| HL Goodness-of-fit Test | 1.00 | 0.76 | ||||||
| Transgression 4: Refuses to have sex with him? | ||||||||
| Experiment group (ref: DHS-control ) | ||||||||
| DHS-modified - wife unintentionally transgresses | −4.60 | 0.00 | 0.01 | −4.64 | 0.00 | 0.01 | ||
| DHS-modified - wife willfully transgresses | 0.02 | 0.92 | 1.02 | 0.11 | 0.64 | 1.12 | ||
| HL Goodness-of-fit Test | 1.00 | 0.48 | ||||||
| Transgression 5: Does not obey elders? | ||||||||
| Experiment group (ref: DHS-control ) | ||||||||
| DHS-modified - wife unintentionally transgresses | −4.72 | 0.00 | 0.01 | −4.80 | 0.00 | 0.01 | ||
| DHS-modified - wife willfully transgresses | 0.48 | 0.04 | 1.61 | 0.55 | 0.02 | 1.73 | ||
| HL Goodness-of-fit Test | 1.00 | 0.92 | ||||||
| Any of the five Transgressions? | ||||||||
| Survey experiment (ref: DHS-control) | ||||||||
| DHS-modified - wife unintentionally transgresses | −2.99 | 0.00 | 0.05 | −3.00 | 0.00 | 0.05 | ||
| DHS-modified - wife willfully transgresses | 0.63 | 0.02 | 1.87 | 0.65 | 0.01 | 1.92 | ||
| HL Goodness-of-fit Test | 1.00 | 0.78 | ||||||
Notes. DHS=Demographic and Health Survey. HL=Hosmer and Lemeshow. Adjusted models control for reading a newspaper or magazine, husband's completed grades of schooling, whether husband's schooling was imputed, and order of individual attitudes versus perceptions of community norms questions.
†
p ≤ 0.10,
*
p ≤ 0.05,
**
p ≤ 0.01,
***
p ≤ 0.001