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National Family Violence Survey, 1985

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title National Family Violence Survey, 1985
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8OEUUU
 
Creator Straus, Murray A., Gelles, Richard J.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The "National Family Violence Survey" is the second of four related studies, conducted between 1975 and 1987. The study employs a Conflict Tactics Scale. Topics in the study cover general demographic and socioeconomic characteristics ; occupation; marital status; pregnancy; children and child behavior problems; parent-child role relationships; verbal or physical aggression; child injuries; marital conflict; husband-wife relations; marital violence events; medical, police and court interventions; forced sex and fear of violence; deterrence and steps taken to end violence; help seeking behavior; physical aggression and crime outside the family; substance abuse; and physical and mental health. Documentation contains codes on how scales and indexes were computed. Documentation also contains details on survey methods and a list of publications. N=4032 for national level data; an oversample of African Ame
ricans contains 502 respondents; an oversample of Hispanics contains 510 respondents; state level oversampling yielded an additional 958 respondents.
 
Date 1985
 
Contributor University of California. Los Angeles. Social Science Data Archive
 
Relation This study is also called Physical Violence in American Families, 1985 and is distributed by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09211.v3 This study is also held and distributed by the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) under the title National Family Violence Survey, 1985 (Dataset number 55)
 
Type Survey