Table 1. Sociodemographic Characteristics and Prevalence of Lifetime IPV Exposure for 1431 Women in the 2019 New Zealand Family Violence Study.
| Characteristic | Total No. (weighted%) | Participants, No. (weighted %) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical | Sexual | Psychological | Controlling | Economic | Any IPV | |||
| Severea | Any | |||||||
| Total | 1431 (100) | 239 (16.0) | 407 (28.0) | 191 (12.4) | 696 (47.7) | 309 (21.6) | 210 (16.2) | 794 (54.7) |
| Age group, y | ||||||||
| 16-29 | 156 (14.7) | 21 (11.4) | 40 (24.0) | 17 (8.7) | 79 (46.5) | 42 (24.0) | 13 (9.6) | 91 (53.9) |
| 30-49 | 474 (33.8) | 73 (15.1) | 141 (28.5) | 66 (13.1) | 257 (50.4) | 115 (22.8) | 77 (16.6) | 288 (57.1) |
| 50-69 | 547 (36.7) | 112 (19.7) | 173 (31.8) | 78 (13.7) | 269 (50.0) | 113 (21.9) | 88 (17.8) | 306 (57.1) |
| ≥70 | 252 (14.8) | 31 (12.6) | 51 (21.2) | 28 (10.8) | 89 (36.4) | 38 (15.1) | 31 (17.3) | 107 (43.0) |
| Ethnicity | ||||||||
| Asian | 152 (11.6) | 15 (8.0) | 28 (16.4) | 14 (7.0) | 50 (32.3) | 23 (12.4) | 21 (14.4) | 60 (38.3) |
| European | 1006 (65.1) | 146 (14.4) | 266 (26.7) | 129 (12.3) | 509 (51.6) | 199 (20.3) | 135 (15.6) | 566 (57.4) |
| Māori | 183 (14.4) | 62 (30.9) | 85 (46.0) | 39 (20.7) | 104 (54.8) | 62 (34.7) | 39 (22.6) | 123 (64.1) |
| MELAA | 22 (1.4) | 3 (12.5) | 7 (34.8) | 3 (13.0) | 11 (47.8) | 8 (34.8) | 4 (20.0) | 13 (60.9) |
| Pacific | 66 (7.4) | 13 (14.1) | 21 (22.8) | 6 (5.5) | 22 (24.4) | 17 (19.7) | 11 (11.7) | 32 (37.8) |
| Educational level | ||||||||
| Primary or secondary | 578 (40.9) | 110 (17.5) | 169 (28.9) | 85 (13.2) | 254 (43.5) | 126 (22.3) | 81 (15.4) | 295 (50.6) |
| Tertiary | 847 (59.1) | 128 (14.9) | 236 (27.4) | 104 (11.8) | 439 (50.6) | 180 (20.9) | 128 (16.8) | 496 (57.5) |
| Food security | ||||||||
| Secure | 1146 (79.5) | 151 (12.5) | 264 (22.7) | 121 (9.9) | 517 (44.5) | 208 (18.1) | 134 (12.7) | 590 (50.8) |
| Insecure | 279 (20.5) | 87 (29.5) | 141 (48.6) | 69 (22.2) | 177 (60.2) | 101 (35.2) | 76 (30.5) | 202 (69.9) |
| Employment | ||||||||
| Student | 61 (6.2) | 10 (10.3) | 15 (19.8) | 8 (8.5) | 30 (43.4) | 15 (19.8) | 6 (12.3) | 34 (49.1) |
| Not working | 90 (6.5) | 18 (19.6) | 31 (36.6) | 16 (16.1) | 51 (55.4) | 18 (21.4) | 19 (26.5) | 54 (60.7) |
| Housework | 146 (10.4) | 27 (17.9) | 43 (27.9) | 19 (12.9) | 61 (38.6) | 30 (19.6) | 31 (21.3) | 69 (44.1) |
| Retired | 355 (21.6) | 40 (11.8) | 68 (21.0) | 31 (8.2) | 120 (35.7) | 42 (13.1) | 36 (12.8) | 146 (43.3) |
| Employed | 778 (55.3) | 144 (17.5) | 250 (30.7) | 117 (14.0) | 434 (53.7) | 204 (25.5) | 118 (15.5) | 491 (60.9) |
Abbreviations: IPV, intimate partner violence; MELAA, Middle Eastern, Latin American, or African.
a
Severe physical IPV includes any exposure to a severe physical IPV behavior, irrespective of moderate behaviors. Any physical IPV includes any moderate or severe physical IPV.