HONG KONG Final Report of the 2006 Hong Kong …INTERNATIONAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SURVEY Final...

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HONG KONG

INTERNATIONAL VIOLENCE

AGAINST WOMEN SURVEY

Final Report of the 2006 Hong Kong IVAWS

Roderic Broadhurst

Brigitte Bouhours

John Bacon-Shone

The University of Hong Kong

January 2012

Between 2003 and 2009, the International Violence Against Women

Survey (IVAWS) has been conducted in 12 developed and developing

countries. The IVAWS is a comprehensive instrument that measures

women’s experiences of physical and sexual violence by men, including

intimate partners, victims’ help-seeking behaviour and the response of

the criminal justice system. This report presents the findings of the 2006

Hong Kong IVAWS. This was the first time such a specialised survey

was conducted in Hong Kong and, for this reason, no trends in violence

over time are available; however, because the IVAWS uses standardised

questions and data collection methods, results can be compared with those

of the other countries that participated in the survey.

The report shows rates of victimisation for seven types of physical

violence and five types of sexual violence over the adult lifetime, the

previous five years and the previous 12 months. Further questions probe

who the perpetrator was, particularly whether it was an intimate partner,

a relative, a friend or acquaintance, or a stranger. Women who had

experienced violence since the age of 16 were asked details about the most

recent incident, such as whether they had reported the assault to the police

or victim support services.

Drawing on socio-demographic and behavioual information on both

respondents and their partners, the report examines the predictors of

violent victimisation by partners and non-partners.

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