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Table 1 Prevalence of emotional, physical or sexual abuse or controlling behaviour by an intimate partner experienced during COVID-19 social distancing measures by 13,416 cis-gendered women who participated in the I-SHARE survey 2020-21 in 26 countries, of whom 9004 responded to questions on violence

From: Working from home and intimate partner violence among cis-women during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a global, cross-sectional study

World Bank Economy Classification

Country

Sample size (proportion of total sample)

Respondents to violence items (% of country sample)

Type of intimate partner violence

Emotional abuse a (%f)

Sexual abuse b (%f)

Physical abuse c (%f)

Limited contact d (%f)

Any violence e (%f)

Low Income

Uganda

108 (0.8)

70 (64.8)

20.0

12.9

5.7

2.9

27.1

Mozambique

35 (0.3)

28 (80.0)

25.0

3.6

3.6

0.0

28.6

Total

143 (1.1)

98 (68.5)

21.4

10.2

5.1

2.0

27.6

Lower-Middle Income

Moldova

189 (1.4)

157 (83.1)

13.1

1.3

3.1

0.0

13.4

Nigeria

129 (1.0)

43 (33.3)

13.0

4.7

4.4

4.8

14.0

Kenya

161 (1.2)

92 (57.1)

23.4

12.9

7.5

12.8

29.4

Total

479 (3.6)

292 (61.0)

16.3

5.4

4.7

4.7

18.5

Upper-Middle Income

Argentina

677 (5.1)

442 (65.3)

16.9

1.1

1.1

0.9

18.1

Botswana

278 (2.1)

151 (54.3)

14.8

5.2

6.6

1.9

19.9

Colombia

1482 (11.1)

969 (65.4)

18.2

3.8

3.2

1.9

20.0

Malaysia

112 (0.8)

60 (53.6)

21.3

1.6

4.8

1.6

23.3

Mexico

1206 (9.0)

713 (59.1)

22.5

3.6

4.6

3.0

25.3

China

153 (1.1)

131 (85.6)

28.4

23.9

24.8

27.3

29.0

Total

3908 (29.1)

2466 (63.1)

19.7

4.4

4.7

3.4

21.7

High Income

Denmark

533 (4.0)

351 (65.9)

2.2

1.1

0.6

0.3

2.9

Portugal

2514 (18.7)

2066 (82.2)

8.0

0.5

0.9

0.9

8.7

France

1282 (9.6)

900 (70.2)

7.6

1.8

2.2

1.1

8.9

Czechia

935 (7.0)

614 (65.7)

10.2

5.1

2.6

2.1

12.5

Luxembourg

210 (1.6)

121 (57.6)

17.1

1.7

0.8

1.7

16.5

Panama

521 (3.9)

313 (60.1)

14.2

2.5

2.2

1.7

16.6

Latvia

139 (1.0)

90 (64.7)

13.8

4.3

1.1

8.3

17.8

USA

215 (1.6)

167 (77.7)

17.2

1.2

1.8

0.0

18.6

Sweden

617 (4.6)

420 (68.1)

15.0

8.3

7.1

8.0

19.1

Uruguay

486 (3.6)

306 (63.0)

16.9

1.9

1.3

1.0

19.6

Italy

204 (1.5)

127 (62.3)

18.2

1.5

2.1

0.7

19.7

Australia

379 (2.8)

229 (60.4)

19.2

2.2

3.0

1.7

19.7

Germany

484 (3.6)

258 (53.3)

18.6

1.6

1.9

1.2

19.8

Canada

126 (1.0)

91 (72.2)

25.3

2.2

0.0

0.0

25.3

Singapore

241 (1.8)

95 (39.4)

23.2

20.0

15.8

11.8

27.4

Total

8886 (66.2)

6148 (69.2)

11.2

2.4

2.1

2.0

12.6

Total

13,416 (100.0)

9004 (67.1)

13.8

3.2

3.0

2.5

15.5

  1. a Those whose partner had insulted them or made them feel bad about themselves
  2. b Those who were made to have unwanted sexual intercourse with their partner by physical force or because they were afraid of what their partner might do
  3. c Those whose partner had slapped, pushed, hit, kicked or choked them or thrown something at them which could cause injury
  4. d Those whose partner restricted their online or telephone contact with family and friends
  5. e Participants who experienced any or multiple of the above forms of violence
  6. f Participants in this country who experienced this form of intimate partner violence, as a proportion of those in the country who responded to the relevant survey item
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