Indicator 5.2.2 Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Target 5.2: All forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

Indicator 5.2.2: Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence

December 2021

indicators 5.2.1, 11.7.2, 16.1.3, 16.2.2.

Uganda Bureau Of Statistics

Uganda Bureau Of Statistics

Ms. Pamela Kakande

Demography & Social Statistics (DSS)

Senior Statistician

+256 772 303441

P.O.Box 7186Kampala

pamela.kakande@ubos.org

Definition:

This indicator measures the percentage of women and girls aged 15 years and older who have experienced sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner, in the previous 12 months.

Concepts:

According to the UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993), Violence against Women is “Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. Violence against women shall be understood to encompass, but not be limited to, the following; Physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring within the general community, including rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment and intimidation at work, in educational institutions and elsewhere, trafficking in women and forced prostitution.

Sexual violence is defined as any sort of harmful or unwanted sexual behavior that is imposed on someone. It includes acts of abusive sexual contact, forced engagement in sexual acts, attempted or completed sexual acts without consent, incest, sexual harassment, etc.

Percent

Not Applicable

The Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys (UDHS).

Sample Design:

The sample design for the UDHS used the sampling frame from the Uganda National Population and Housing Census (NPHC 2014). The census frame is a complete list of all census Enumeration Areas (EAs) created for the 2014 NPHC. In Uganda, an EA is a geographic area that covers an average of about 130 households.

At the time of the NPHC, Uganda was divided administratively into 112 districts, which were grouped for this survey into 15 regions.

The sample for the 2016 UDHS was designed to provide estimates of key indicators for the country as a whole, for urban and rural areas separately, and for each of the 15 sub regions. Estimates are also presented for three special areas: the Lake Victoria islands, the mountainous districts, and greater Kampala.

The 2016 UDHS sample was stratified and selected in two stages. In the first stage, 697 EAs were selected from the 2014 NPHC, 162 EAs in urban areas and 535 in rural areas. Households constituted the second stage of sampling. A listing of households was compiled in each of the 696 accessible selected EAs from April to October 2016. To minimize the task of household listing, each large EA (that is to say more than 300 households) selected for the 2016 UDHS was segmented. Only one segment was selected for the survey with probability proportional to segment size, and the household listing was conducted only in the selected segment.

Out of the 20,880 selected households (30 households per EA), 18,506 women aged 15-49 were successfully interviewed. All women age 15-49 who were either permanent residents of the selected households or visitors who stayed in the household the night before the survey were eligible to be interviewed. In one-third of the sampled households, all men age 15-54, including both usual residents and visitors who stayed in the household the night before the interview, were eligible for individual interviews.

Recruitment and Training:

UBOS recruited and trained field staff to serve as supervisors, CAPI managers, interviewers, health technicians, and reserve interviewers for the main fieldwork. Health technicians were trained separately from interviewers. A two day f ield practice was organized to provide trainees with additional hands on practice before the actual fieldwork. Prior to the main field work, a pre-test was conducted and best practices were adopted.

Questionnaires:

Four questionnaires were used for the 2016 UDHS: The Household Questionnaire, the Woman’s Questionnaire, the Man’s Questionnaire, and the Biomarker Questionnaire. The questionnaires, based on The DHS Program’s model questionnaires, were adapted to reflect the population and health issues relevant to Uganda. Input was solicited from all stakeholders such as; Government Ministries and Agencies, Non-governmental Organizations, and Development partners. After the finalization of the questionnaires in English, they were then translated into eight major local languages. The Household, Woman’s, and Man’s Questionnaires were programmed into a computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) application for data collection purposes.

Data collection:

Data collection was conducted by 21 field teams, each consisting of one team leader, one field data Manager, three female interviewers, one male interviewer, one health technician, and a driver. The health technicians were responsible for anthropometric measurements, blood sample collection for Hemoglobin and malaria testing, and DBS specimen collection for vitamin A testing.

The, interviewers used tablets to record all questionnaire responses during the interviews. The tablets were equipped with Bluetooth technology to enable remote electronic transfer of files, such as assignments from the team supervisor to the interviewers, individual questionnaires among survey team members, and completed questionnaires from interviewers to team supervisors.

The field supervisors transferred data to the central data processing office via IFSS. Senior staff from the Makerere University School of Public Health, the Ministry of Health, and UBOS and a survey technical specialist from the DHS. Program coordinated and supervised fieldwork activities. Data collection took place over a 6-month period from June 2016 through December 2016.

Every five years

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The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) Act, 1998 provides for the development and maintenance of National Statistical System (NSS) to ensure collection, analysis and publication of integrated, relevant, reliable and timely statistical information. It established the Bureau as a coordinating, monitoring and supervisory body for the NSS.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of human rights violations in the country. Having data on this indicator will help understand the extent and nature of this form of violence hence facilitate appropriate policies and program

The availability of comparable data remains a challenge in this area as many data collection efforts have relied on different survey methodologies and used different definitions of sexual violence and different survey question formulation. This indicator calls for disaggregation by age group and place of occurrence. No standard definitions and methods have been globally agreed yet to collect data on the place where the violence occurs, therefore this is not presented at this point in the computation method below. Willingness to discuss experiences of violence and understanding of relevant concepts is usually a challenge according to the cultural context and this may affect reported prevalence levels. Data is only available for women/girls aged 15-49

This indicator calls for disaggregation by age group and place of occurrence. No standard definitions and methods have been globally agreed yet to collect data on the place where the violence occurs, therefore this is not presented at this point in the computation method below.

Pretest, Training of field staff, field supervision, and data processing were conducted. Data Processing: It included checking for consistency, incompleteness and outliers. Data editing and cleaning included structure and consistency checks to ensure completeness of work in the field.

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1. The survey implementation is overseen by a Technical Working Group which is constituted using a multi sectorial approach.

2. The survey report is reviewed by an experienced team at Management level who are in most cases Directors or Heads of departments and key stakeholders from Makerere School of Public Health, Molecular Laboratory of Makerere University School of Health Sciences, Ministry of Health and later reviewed by consultants

The UDHS goes through several stages before production and sharing of the final findings. During the Survey implementation.

1. Consultative user needs assessment meetings are held with all key stakeholders.

2. ICF International provided consultants to oversee the UDHS

3. The survey and sampling design generated using scientific methods as recommended by the Census and Survey Rules and Regulations.

4. Survey staff are trained on the survey tools and the CAPI application before deployment to the field.

5. The questionnaire developments for different categories of the Target respondents were adapted to reflect the population and health issues relevant to Uganda. (Man’s Questionnaire, Woman’s questionnaire, Biomarker questionnaire and Field worker questionnaire. This follows a multi-stakeholder approach and pretesting helps to establish the relevancy and adequacy of the questions to be used.

6. Senior Supervision is conducted during data collection to ensure that quality data is collected.

7. Debriefing meetings are implemented during agreed intervals to discuss operational and technical field challenges.

8. Field Data editing, Secondary data cleaning done in office cleaning and coding is undertaken before analysis and report writing.

9. An independent quality assurance team is hired to check on the quality of the survey during various phases of the survey

Before dissemination, the report is reviewed and quality assured by a professional team of the National Statistical System.

Quality Control is addressed at all levels during Survey implementation.

Comparable data are available for a sub-sample of women and girls aged 15-49 in the UDHS 2016.

Not Available

United Nations, 2014. Guidelines for Producing Statistics on Violence against Women- Statistical Surveys.

United Nations, 2015. The World’s Women 2015, Trends and Statistics.

UN Women. 2016. Global Database on Violence against Women. Available at: http://evaw-global-database. unwomen.org/en UNICEF Data portal: http://data.unicef.org/child-protection/violence.html

UNSD Portal on the minimum set of gender indicators: http://genderstats.un.org/beta/index.html#/home

UNSD dedicated portal for data and metadata on violence against women: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/vaw/ Uganda Demographic Health Survey 2016 https://www.ubos.org http://dhsprogram.com