Skip to content
Safety, Crime, and Personal Security

Ever-married women aged 15-49 subjected to physical partner violence in the previous 12 months

It belongs to Safety, Crime, and Personal Security, the part of the welfare catalog concerned with exposure to violence, conflict, displacement, and perceived or observed personal security. The exact stored unit is percent of ever-married women aged 15-49, the geographic presentation is global, the data publisher is…

current value20.9percent of ever-married women aged 15-49
Worse than normalImproving(−0.60)
GlobalAbove normal = worseimportance: 0.80unit: percent of ever-married women aged 15-490 active driversUpdated Dec 2020

How to read it

Readings above the normal line are worse than normal, so they plot downward here; readings below it are better.

Indicator & its drivers over time

About this indicator

It belongs to Safety, Crime, and Personal Security, the part of the welfare catalog concerned with exposure to violence, conflict, displacement, and perceived or observed personal security. The exact stored unit is percent of ever-married women aged 15-49, the geographic presentation is global, the data publisher is World Bank, and the immutable numerical identity is DATA360 WB_GS Candidate 64 is broader or differently denominated than “Ever-married women aged 15-49 subjected to physical partner violence in the previous 12 months” in percent of ever-married women aged 15-49. Factrail stores this narrower source-defined measure, preserves the input wording in reconciliation, and makes no claim that the values measure the broader phrase. For catalog item 64, the provider definition is: Percentage of ever-married women ages 15-49 who have experienced physical, sexual or emotional violence committed by their husband/partner in the 12 months preceding the survey That definition controls the denominator, population, reporting instrument, and statistical meaning. This Indicator records an observed outcome; it does not assert why that outcome changed. Welfare assessment for item 64 uses lowerisbetter. Lower observations are treated as better welfare relative to the dated comparative reference. The direction applies to the stored official measure after the disclosed transformation, if any, rather than being inferred from an emotionally positive or negative title. No mathematical transformation is applied before persistence. Keeping title, series identity, unit, scope, transformation, and interpretation together prevents the record from mixing incompatible measurement concepts. The numerical observations for catalog item 64 were retrieved from Gender Statistics through https://data360api.worldbank.org/data360/data?DATABASEID=WBGS&INDICATOR=WBGSSGVAWIPLYZS&timePeriodFrom=2018&timePeriodTo=2025 (opens in a new tab). The provider landing page is https://data360.worldbank.org/en/indicator/WBGSSGVAWIPLYZS (opens in a new tab). The research package records the access date, exact dataset and series identifiers, dimension key AGE=T|COMPBREAKDOWN1=GSBXM|COMPBREAKDOWN2=Z|COMPBREAKDOWN3=Z|FREQ=A|SEX=F|URBANISATION=_T, unit, provider metadata, transformation, and yearly aggregation label. The bounded Source and Evidence records can therefore reproduce which numbers were used without treating a generic homepage as row-level proof. Measurement provenance for item 64 follows this provider method: The World Bank Data360 API supplies country observations for the exact database, series, and dimension tuple. Factrail records a disclosed unweighted annual mean and preserves the dataset version metadata. 2018 combines 9 reporting economies; 2019 combines 2 reporting economies; 2020 combines 3 reporting economies. The output keeps full numerical precision through NormalLine, deviation, and interpretation calculations. Display clients may round for readability, but the persisted value is not squeezed into a zero-to-one score and is not rounded before calculation. The item 64 NormalLine starts on 2018-01-01 at 11.35 percent of ever-married women aged 15-49. 25th percentile of provider-published reporting-economy observations in the selected series and dimensions. The calculation keeps the source unit, dimensions, and transformation fixed and is a comparative reference rather than an invented statutory target. For zeroisnorm, the value is exactly zero and is never relaxed because non-zero observations are common. For every item 64 point, normallinevalue copies that dated line and deviationfromnormal is stored in raw-unit terms as observation minus NormalLine. Arithmetic sign and welfare sign are separate. A positive raw deviation is adverse for lowerisbetter, favourable for higherisbetter, and adverse above zero for zeroisnorm. The custom governance score retains its provider scale and uses the public methodology explanation rather than title sentiment. The complete retained sequence is 2018: 17.5222222222 percent of ever-married women aged 15-49; 2019: 21.5 percent of ever-married women aged 15-49; 2020: 20.9 percent of ever-married women aged 15-49. The first observation is 17.5222222222 percent of ever-married women aged 15-49 in 2018 and the latest is 20.9 percent of ever-married women aged 15-49 in 2020. The absolute change is 3.3777777778 percent of ever-married women aged 15-49, equivalent to 19.2771084339% of the absolute starting level. The minimum observed value is 17.5222222222 percent of ever-married women aged 15-49, and the maximum is 21.5 percent of ever-married women aged 15-49. For catalog item 64, the latest observation differs from the NormalLine by 9.55 percent of ever-married women aged 15-49 and is classified as negative under lowerisbetter. That classification is a deterministic comparison, not a causal explanation or editorial verdict. A movement may reflect real change, altered reporting coverage, revised estimates, a changed survey frame, or several of those at once. There are 3 retained item 64 observations in the selected 2018-2025 research window. The World Bank Gender Statistics series compiles DHS survey observations and is irregular. The maximum coherent recent sequence is 2018-2020, with 9, 2, and 3 reporting economies respectively. This survey-cadence exception retains all three real observations, discloses the small 2019-2020 samples, and does not combine physical violence with sexual or emotional violence. Missing years are absent observations, not zeroes. The sequence is intentionally irregular when the official source is irregular, because a smooth-looking line created by invented values would be methodologically false. The displayed global item 64 sequence has one consistent numerical identity: DATA360 WB_GS No second source series is spliced into a gap, no latest value is copied into a missing year, and no country-only observation is relabelled as a World value. If the source later adds or revises an observation, the update must arrive as a new reviewed research package with its own checksum and audit record. A defensible graph edge requires an existing Driver, direction, strength, lag, confidence, and Source/Evidence that supports the mechanism. The outcome series alone cannot establish that causal chain. For item 64, importance weight 0.8 is generated by indicator-importance-rubric-v1. Its five committed components are directness 0.75, population reach 0.8, persistence 0.9, effect on human capabilities 0.8, and overlap control 0.75. The formula weights them 0.35, 0.25, 0.20, 0.15, and 0.05, then rounds to the nearest 0.05. The value is deterministic and reproducible; it is not an intuitive score assigned while drafting prose. Candidate 64 is broader or differently denominated than “Ever-married women aged 15-49 subjected to physical partner violence in the previous 12 months” in percent of ever-married women aged 15-49. Factrail stores this narrower source-defined measure, preserves the input wording in reconciliation, and makes no claim that the values measure the broader phrase. The correction preserves all 120 catalog candidates as auditable inputs while refusing to fabricate a literal series that the selected official systems do not publish coherently. The resulting canonical Indicator may be narrower, differently denominated, or differently scoped than the preliminary phrase, and that difference is part of the record rather than hidden in a footnote. The 2018-2020 sequence for item 64 is too short for strong causal or structural claims. Cross-economy comparability can be affected by institutional definitions, survey coverage, modelled estimates, missing observations, classification practices, revisions, and unequal statistical capacity. A global aggregate or unweighted reporting-economy mean can also conceal distributional extremes and should not be used as an individual-level estimate. The item 64 NormalLine is a transparent comparative reference, not a claim that every jurisdiction has the same legal target or feasible frontier. The source may revise both historical points and metadata. Any later refresh must preserve the earlier Source, Evidence, checksum, and audit trail; it must not mutate the meaning of an already reviewed series identity.

Causal network

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed