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Table 2 Characteristics of victims and incidents of IPV.

From: Do health sector measures of violence against women at different levels of severity correlate? Evidence from Brazil

Level of severity

Source

2011–2016, correlation sample

2016, all incidents

IPV reports

All reports

IPV reports

All reports

SINAN

SINAN

SINAN

SINAN

Mean age (between 15 and 49)

30.0

28.6

30.3

29.0

Standard deviation

8.4

9.1

8.6

9.2

Race available (%)

85.9

77.8

90.8

86.6

  White

44.4

42.7

44.0

43.4

Non-white

55.6

57.3

56.0

56.6

Education available (%)*

63.6

55.5

67.3

61.5

 Illiterate

6.4

5.7

7.7

6.8

 Lower primary

25.6

24.9

26.9

25.7

 Upper primary

28.1

29.4

28.5

29.8

 Secondary

34.5

33.8

31.5

31.8

 Tertiary

4.5

5.0

4.1

4.5

Time of day available (%)

64.9

61.2

68.3

65.4

 Morning

17.8

17.5

16.0

16.3

 Afternoon

21.5

23.1

21.7

23.4

 Night

60.7

59.3

62.3

60.2

Location information available (%)**

92.7

81.2

94.0

86.7

 Occurred at home

80.3

63.6

81.7

65.6

 Occurred elsewhere

19.7

36.4

18.3

34.4

Multiple incident info (%)

81.3

69.0

83.7

76.4

 Mutiple incidents

72.3

51.9

66.8

48.4

 Single incident

27.7

48.1

33.2

51.6

Source of injury known (%)

95.5

91.3

95.6

92.0

 No weapon

82.7

76.6

82.6

78.9

 Weapon

17.3

23.4

17.4

21.1

Perpetrator relationship identified (%)

    

 Partner

 

35.8

 

37.9

 Ex-partner

 

15.4

 

15.7

 Stranger

 

15.8

 

14.5

 Other relationship

 

33.0

 

31.9

# Of incidents (women, ages 15–49)***

7022

19,467

42,205

86,861

Percent of 2016 total/# of municipalities reporting incidents

17%

22%

3113

3944

  1. Excludes self-inflicted (reports) and suicides (homicides)
  2. The Correlation Analytical Sample is observations from municipalities with fewer than 12 quarters of data missing between 2011 and 2016
  3. *Education levels for reports are completed levels; for homicides they are levels initiated or completed
  4. **For homicides, death occurred at hospital indicates location of aggression unknown
  5. ***Yearly average for correlation sample