Table 2.
Prevalence of experience of lifetime physical IPV among adolescent girls and young women by demographic, behavioural, social and health related variables, South Africa 2017
| Variables | Intimate partner violence (IPV) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Na | % | 95% CI | p-value | |
| Age groups in years | ||||
| 15–19 | 224 | 14.2 | 6.9–27.1 | 0.766 |
| 20–24 | 492 | 12.7 | 9.1–17.4 | – |
| Race groups | ||||
| African | 594 | 13.8 | 9.9–19.0 | 0.091 |
| other | 122 | 7.7 | 4.1–14.0 | – |
| Marital status | ||||
| Married | 32 | 3.6 | 0.8–13.8 | 0.039 |
| Never married | 681 | 13.7 | 10.0–18.6 | – |
| Education level | ||||
| No education/Primary | 34 | 17.0 | 6.7–36.8 | 0.194 |
| Secondary | 356 | 17.8 | 12.5–24.5 | – |
| Tertiary | 38 | 4.9 | 0.8–25.8 | – |
| Employment status | ||||
| Not employed | 616 | 13.8 | 9.9–19.0 | 0.223 |
| Employed | 95 | 7.9 | 3.2–18.2 | – |
| Asset based SESb | ||||
| Low SES | 374 | 14.3 | 9.8–20.3 | 0.464 |
| HIGH SES | 286 | 10.9 | 5.7–19.9 | – |
| Locality type | ||||
| Urban | 392 | 14.0 | 9.2–20.7 | 0.580 |
| Rural informal (tribal areas) | 253 | 10.8 | 6.6–16.9 | – |
| Rural (farm areas) | 71 | 14.8 | 7.1–28.2 | – |
| AUDIT scorec | ||||
| abstainers | 477 | 11.10 | 7.7–15.8 | 0.523 |
| low risk drinkers (1–7) | 101 | 15.2 | 7.9–27.2 | – |
| high risk drinkers (8–19) | 46 | 14.9 | 4.2–41.2 | – |
| hazardous drinkers (20+) | 5 | 31.4 | 5.2–79.2 | – |
| Orphanhood | ||||
| not orphan | 188 | 18.0 | 9.2–32.3 | 0.037 |
| orphan | 112 | 6.1 | 2.6–13.9 | – |
| Psychological distress | ||||
| Absence | 576 | 11.9 | 8.5–16.3 | 0.290 |
| Presence | 137 | 17.9 | 8.8–32.9 | |
aSubtotals do not all equal to the total (N) due to non-response and / or missing data, bsocio-economic status, (SES), calcohol risk score based on a questionnaire for Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT)