Table 3.
Association between selected level -1 predictors and prevalence of domestic spousal violence among ever-married women aged 15–49, in some selected states of India, using Chi-square test, NFHS 2015-16.
| Predictors | Domestic violence status |
Chi-square(χ) | P -value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not Violated (N) | violated (N) | |||
| Wealth Quintile | ||||
| Poorest | 3592 (52.39%) | 3264 (47.60%) | 15000 | 0.000 |
| Poorer | 4315 (60.09%) | 2865 (39.90%) | ||
| Middle | 5031 (66.41%) | 2545 (33.59%) | ||
| Richer | 5313 (72.47%) | 2018 (27.53%) | ||
| Richest | 4895 (81.88%) | 1083 (18.11%) | ||
| Place of Residence | ||||
| Urban | 6973 (69.22%) | 3101 (30.78%) | 54.63 | 0.000 |
| Rural | 16173 (65.02%) | 8674 (34.88%) | ||
| Age Group (Year) | ||||
| 15 - 24 | 3468 (68.36%) | 1605 (31.64%) | 12.11 | 0.002 |
| 25 - 35 | 9681 (66.14%) | 4955 (33.85%) | ||
| 36 - 49 | 9997 (65.71%) | 5215 (34.28%) | ||
| Level of Education | ||||
| No education | 6626 (56.79%) | 5042 (43.21%) | 1100 | 0.000 |
| Primary | 2859 (61.33%) | 1803 (38.67%) | ||
| Secondary | 10693 (71.19%) | 4327 (28.81%) | ||
| Higher | 2968 (83.11%) | 603 (16.89%) | ||
| Working Status of Respondent | ||||
| Currently working | 5538 (65.39%) | 2931 (34.60%) | 386.43 | 0.000 |
| Currently not Working | 18277 (69.09%) | 8175 (30.90%) | ||
| Household member (Person) | ||||
| less than four | 5054 (67.02%) | 2487 (32.98%) | 37.54 | 0.000 |
| four to six | 13812 (66.01%) | 7112 (33.99%) | ||
| more than six | 4280 (66.30%) | 2176 (33.71%) | ||
| Number of living children | ||||
| No child | 646 (47.60%) | 711 (52.39%) | 79.8166 | 0.000 |
| 1 child | 3218 (50.57%) | 3146 (49.43%) | ||
| 2 child | 12531 (86.95%) | 1881 (13.05%) | ||
| 3 or more child | 6612 (51.70%) | 6176 (48.30%) | ||