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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 25.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2017 Nov 4;76:184–193. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.10.014

Table 2.

Lifetime prevalence of childhood (< 18 years old) physical, emotional, and sexual violence among youth ages 13–24 who were ever a restavèk and those who were never a restavèk, by gender, Violence Against Children Survey, Haiti 2012.

Female Male


Ever a restavèk Never a restavèk p value Odds Ratio (95%CI) Ever a restavèk Never a restavèk p value Odds Ratio (95%CI)
Never worked for money or any other payment 221 (76.8% [71.1–82.5]) 980 (85.9% [83.4–88.3]) ref ref 82 (39.3% [28.6–50.0]) 792 (59.3% [55.0–63.5]) ref ref
Ever worked for money or any other payment 60 (23.2% [17.5–28.9]) 170 (14.2% [11.7–16.6]) 0.0017 1.83 (1.25–2.67) 88 (60.7% [50.0–71.4]) 472 (40.4% [36.2–44.7]) 0.0007 2.26 (1.41–3.63)
Never attended school 19 (3.6% [1.6–5.6]) 41 (2.5% [1.4–3.7]) 0.0008 3.09 (1.56–6.13) 10a (6.6% [2.0–11.2]) 21a (1.8% [0.4–3.2]) 0.0006 5.96 (1.91–18.57)
Completed less than primary school 179 (67.2% [60.5–73.9]) 428 (33.7% [28.8–38.5]) < 0.0001 4.36 (3.13–6.09) 105 (54.3% [43.0–65.5]) 522 (35.1% [30.8–39.4]) 0.0004 2.49 (1.49–4.16)
Completed primary school or higher 83 (29.2% [22.5–35.9]) 681 (63.8% [58.6–69.0]) ref ref 55 (39.1% [29.2–49.1]) 722 (63.0% [58.4–67.5]) ref ref
Household did not have enough money for food before age 18 191 (71.4% [65.0–77.8]) 603 (51.3% [46.0–56.5]) 0.0061 2.56 (1.29–5.07) 128 (77.9% [69.7–86.2]) 712 (56.2% [51.9–60.4]) < 0.0001 17.52 (3.27–93.72)
Household had enough money for food only before age 18 20a (4.8% [1.6–8.1]) 75 (5.8% [4.0–7.6]) 0.4340 1.53 (0.52–4.52) 15 (7.2% [3.7–10.7]) 102 (8.3% [6.0–10.4]) 0.0014 11.02 (1.90–64.05)
Household had enough money for food, medical care, school, and clothing before age 18 33 (11.9% [6.9–16.8]) 241 (21.6% [17.5–25.7]) 0.9848 1.01 (0.43–2.36) 17a (10.4% [4.0–16.8]) 182 (13.5% [11.2–15.9]) 0.0031 9.70 (1.59–59.06)
Household had enough money for all of the above and extras before age 18 23 (7.4% [3.9–10.9]) 146 (13.6% [10.3–17.0]) ref ref 2a (0.9% [0.0–2.2]) 131 (10.8% [7.7–14.0]) ref ref

Data are absolute number (weighted% [95%CI]). Absolute numbers do not perfectly correspond to percentages because percentages are weighted.

a

The relative standard error was more than 30%, the value of estimate may not be stable.