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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2019 Apr 16;55(3):393–405. doi: 10.1007/s00127-019-01703-z

Table 3.

Prevalence of marital violence ever in current marriage in the six World Mental Health Survey countries with couples samples, as reported by either spousea

Couples sample sizeb
% (se)
(n)
Brazil 133 21.80 (3.21) (33)
Bulgaria 422 10.67 (1.59) (52)
People’s Republic of China 104 16.25 (3.20) (21)
Lebanon 159 8.75 (3.23) (14)
Nigeria 305 12.16 (2.65) (50)
United States 392 22.22 (1.77) (78)
Total 1515 14.40 (0.98) (248)

Abbreviations: se, standard error, n, number of observed cases of the outcome in the sample

a

Based on weighted data

b

The number of heterosexual couples in each country sample