A Gender Based Analysis of House Hold Violence in Rural South West Nigeria

Abstract
While studies abound on domestic violence especially on wife battering in urban centers, there had been little empirical studies on the type of violence each member of an household experience in rural areas, as rural areas are perceived as where cultural norms of the society are upheld. The aim of this paper therefore is to investigate the factors, types and consequences of violence each member of household faced, using gender based analysis.
The study anchors on conflict theory to explain the ways each member of household experience violence. The research design consists of quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. The quantitative method consists of questionnaire, while qualitative methods consist of indepth –interviewing (IDI) and key-Informant Interviewing (KII) and some case studies.The essence of triangulation is to make for the weakness of other methods. The sample size consist of 1000 thousand respondents to be chosen through multi- stage sampling techniques across the five states that makes up south-west Nigeria.
It is expected that this paper will provide the detailed analysis of the causes, perceptions, and consequences of violence on women, men, older persons, and children in rural areas.