A study of less severe, severe and sexual violence among ever married Nepalese women: Evidence from NDHS 2011

Domestic violence has continued throughout history unreported and unchallenged. It has profound effect on women. After marriage, the greater risk of violence for women continues to be in their home where husband and family live together. Data on this issue is hard to come by as there are very few studies done on this subject. Information on women facing different types of domestic violence was collected for the first time in the 2011 Nepal DHS. Therefore, an attempt has been made to study domestic violence among ever married women in Nepal and associated factors. The Nepal Demographic Health Survey (NDHS), 2011 which covered 3224 ever married women, those interviewed domestic violence modules. Background characteristics such as age, working status, marital status, number of living children, residence, region, education level of women, religion and wealth index are link to three different category of violence those are less severe violence, severe violence and sexual violence. Bivariate analysis is used to examine the variation of three category of violence by background characteristics. All the three category of violence are more among aged women. Further, the analysis shows that terai region women and Muslim women were more experienced all these three violence. Key words:Nepal, severe violence, sexual violence, DHS