Heyman & Schlee (1997) have proposed a method for weighting single-partner violence data to approximate the prevalence estimate of intimate partner violence (IPV) that would have been obtained from dyadic-level data. The authors did not have nationally available data, so we applied their method to a nationally representative sample of couples collected in 1995 using the Violence subscale from the Conflict Tactics Scale, Form R. We present weights to estimate the upper- and lower-bound estimates of male-to-female and female-to-male IPV (MFIPV-U,L; FMIPV-U,L) for couples in which both partners are African American, Hispanic, and White, and for the sample as a whole weighted to the U.S. population.
|
MFIPV-U |
MFIPV-L |
Male Est. |
Female Est. |
FMIPV-U |
FMIPV-L |
Female Est. |
Male Est. |
|
|
AFRICAN (354) AMERICAN |
22.22% |
8.90% |
16.83% |
14.77% |
29.60% |
11.99% |
24.06% |
19.35% |
|
Male Weight |
1.32 |
.53 |
-- |
-- |
1.53 |
.62 |
-- |
-- |
|
Female Weight |
1.50 |
.60 |
-- |
-- |
1.23 |
.50 |
-- |
-- |
|
HISPANIC (521) |
16.12% |
5.66% |
12.08% |
10.43% |
20.94% |
6.45% |
17.95% |
11.02% |
|
Male Weight |
1.33 |
.47 |
-- |
-- |
1.90 |
.59 |
-- |
-- |
|
Female Weight |
1.55 |
.54 |
-- |
-- |
1.17 |
.36 |
-- |
-- |
|
WHITE (552) |
11.36% |
4.39% |
7.70% |
8.22% |
15.40% |
4.50% |
11.78% |
8.76% |
|
Male Weight |
1.48 |
.57 |
-- |
-- |
1.76 |
.51 |
-- |
-- |
|
Female Weight |
1.38 |
.53 |
-- |
-- |
1.31 |
.38 |
-- |
-- |
|
TOTAL (1599) |
13.48% |
5.20% |
9.16% |
9.73% |
18.09% |
6.22% |
14.57% |
10.47% |
|
Male Weight |
1.47 |
.57 |
-- |
-- |
1.73 |
.59 |
-- |
-- |
|
Female Weight |
1.39 |
.53 |
-- |
-- |
1.24 |
.43 |
-- |
-- |
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will learn how to weight single partner data to approximate dyadic-level prevalence data on violence. 2. Participants will learn the difficulties associated with estimating the prevalence of intimate partner violence. 3. Participants will understand the importance of considering subgroups (e.g., ethnicity) in conducting these calculations
Keywords: Domestic Violence, Methodology
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.