Modelling the prevalence of violence against women using the Kenya demographic health survey 2003
Abstract
This study examines the determinants of violence against women in Kenya. The data used in
this study comes from the Demographic and Health Surveys, (DHS). Parsimonious Logistic
regression models were estimated based on this data with the three forms of violence that is
Sexual, Physical and Emotional as the dependent variables and a set of demographic
variables that is age, marital status, education level, occupation, religion, region, residence
and wealth index as the explanatory variables. The results presented in this paper suggest
that the DHS data can be used to determine the correlates of violence against women
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University of NairobiPublisher
School of mathematics