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Polygyny and spousal violence in India

Table 3. Percentage of currently married women who have experienced spousal violence in the preceding 12 months according to their
individual characteristics and dimensions of women’s agency and by the status of polygyny, India, 2019 – 2021.
Woman level Physical violence Sexual violence Emotional violence Any violence
indicators and Non‑ Polygynous Non‑ Polygynous Non‑ Polygynous Non‑ Polygynous
characteristics polygynous polygynous polygynous Polygynous
related to violence
Sociodemographic
Current age (years)
15 – 24 19.5 35.6 4.8 1.05 10.2 25.6 23.8 43.2
25 – 34 22.8 35.3 5.0 10.1 11.8 25.3 26.3 41.1
35 and above 22.4 40.3 4.6 14.4 11.4 29.2 26.2 46.2
Age at marriage
(years)
<18 26.5 40.5 5.8 12.7 13.0 28.3 30.2 46.4
≥18 18.6 37.2 4.0 11.9 10.1 27.5 22.4 43.4
No. of living
children
0 13.5 24.2 3.4 3.5 8.8 16.8 17.6 27.9
1 17.4 43.4 4.2 9.0 9.8 30.4 21.3 45.8
2 20.8 34.6 4.1 15.8 11.0 28.5 24.7 48.0
3 and above 28.1 46.3 6.2 16.7 13.1 30.9 31.7 49.0
Spousal age
difference (years)
Wife older or same 17.2 69.9 3.8 37.8 8.0 27.9 19.4 74.4
age with husband
Husband older 22.8 44.5 5.0 5.2 10.8 36.9 26.0 45.7
1 – 2 years
Husband older of 22.3 36.5 4.8 11.7 11.7 27.0 26.3 43.1
3 and above years
Educational
attainment level
No. formal 30.1 38.9 6.3 14.3 14.6 27.8 33.9 43.6
education
Primary 24.5 40.1 5.8 15.8 12.1 23.3 28.2 41.8
Secondary and 17.8 36.9 3.8 6.8 9.7 30.8 21.5 47.6
higher
Wage work status
Not worked for 19.7 35.0 4.0 5.5 9.5 23.6 23.1 40.6
wages
Worked for wages 26.7 41.7 6.2 18.3 14.9 31.7 31.2 48.2
Agency
Decision-making authority (no. of household decisions in which woman participates)
0 20.9 37.1 4.3 9.9 10.1 23.4 24.3 42.0
1 – 2 25.9 28.5 6.1 12.1 15.1 23.6 31.2 40.8
3 – 4 29.9 54.5 9.2 23.0 21.0 51.7 34.9 58.2
Freedom of movement to visit all three locations probed alone
No 22.9 39.3 5.1 8.2 11.9 22.4 26.7 42.5
Yes 21.7 38.1 4.6 14.1 11.1 30.4 25.4 45.5
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