Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: a cross-country analysis

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Table 9 Descriptive Statistics for Background Characteristics From Children Experiencing Physical and/or Sexual Violence in the Violence Against Children Surveys by Country

	Cambodia		Haiti
Variable	% or prevalence	95% CI	% or prevalence	95% CI
Male	54.19	(45.69, 62.70)	51.14	(43.85, 58.44)
Age in years	14.80	(14.67, 14.93)	14.96	(14.85, 15.07)
Currently enrolled in school	70.08	(65.03, 75.13)	86.31	(83.62, 89.00)
Not living with biological mother	11.98	(8.72, 15.24)	30.78	(26.87, 34.70)
Not living with biological father	19.02	(14.84, 23.20)	44.91	(40.87, 48.95)
Number of children 0–17 years in household	2.62	(2.50, 2.73)	3.49	(3.33, 3.65)
Number of males 18+ in household	1.49	(1.39, 1.59)	1.57	(1.47, 1.67)
Number of females 18+ in household	1.61	(1.53, 1.70)	1.67	(1.58, 1.76)
Female head of household	17.13	(13.59, 20.66)	52.45	(46.97, 57.93)
Poorer wealth quintile	24.01	(19.57, 28.45)	17.90	(14.15, 21.64)
Middle wealth quintile	21.14	(17.25, 25.04)	18.59	(15.08, 22.09)
Richer wealth quintile	21.48	(16.91, 26.04)	19.98	(15.41, 24.55)
Richest wealth quintile	14.49	(9.32, 19.65)	24.90	(19.78, 30.02)
Urban	15.55	(9.57, 21.53)	41.13	(32.58, 49.67)
Camp			1.59	(0.19, 2.99)
N	586		1040

Abbreviations: CI Confidence Interval; N Number of observations
Notes: ^aEstimates are n (weighted %) or prevalence (95% Confidence Interval)
^bData comes from a nationally representative sample of children aged 13–17 years from Violence Against Children Surveys
^cSamples from male and female respondents are combined due to low overall help seeking rates within subsamples
^dWealth quintiles are from indices created through factor analysis of household assets and dwelling characteristics, similar to standard methodology from the Demographic and Health Surveys and are age-group specific

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