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Cluster 4 comprises moderate physical and emotional abuse (MPE).
Emotional abuse is common in this cluster, with high rates of jealous behaviour
(60%) and control of whereabouts (67%). A substantial minority of women in
this cluster have experienced physical abuse largely in the form of being
slapped (39%) and being forced to perform a sex act (37%). This cluster is the
largest in the sample with 1250 women (27.24% of the sample).
Cluster 5 represents the highest overall level of abuse, and is termed the
high and complete abuse (HCA). Nearly all women in this cluster have
experienced some form of physical abuse, with particular high rates of being
slapped (90%), punched (65%) and kicked (60%). Women in this cluster also
report high rates of forced sex (65%). Controlling behaviour and emotional
abuse is also common in this cluster, particularly jealous behaviour (90%),
knowledge about whereabouts (90%) being humiliated (55%), threatened
(65%) or insulted (75%). This cluster comprises 288 women and is 8.46% of the
sample.
Multinomial logistic regression results
Results of the multinomial regression are summarised in Table 1. The odds
of a woman encountering a particular profile of domestic violence were
consistently associated with husband’s alcohol consumption, women’s
working status and ethnicity. For husband’s alcohol consumption, women’s
working status and polygamous marriage, the odds were smaller for
controlling behaviour type of abuse and higher in the physical and complete
abuse categories. Age, religion, education level and wealth status were only
significant in some types/levels of abuse. Where these variables were
significant, younger women were more likely to encounter violence than the
older women, Muslim women were more likely to experience that type of
violence compared to Christian women, women with primary education were
more likely to encounter violence than women with no education and poorer
women had higher odds of suffering from violence than the poorest.

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