Situation analySiS

SITUATION ANAlySIS of ChIldreN in UgANdASTATISTICAl ABSTrACTviOLenCe AGAinST wOMenIn 2011, 35% of ever-married women had experienced physical orsexual violence by a husband or partner within the past 12 months.Women living in rural areas or who have no education are more likely to haveexperienced physical or sexual violence than their counterparts.Women whose households are in the lowest wealth quintile are twice as likely toexperience physical or sexual violence from their husband or partner as womenfrom the highest quintile.Women living in the North (51%) and Western regions (41%) were most likely tohave recently experienced physical or sexual violence.Women with secondary or higher education (27%) were least likely to haveexperienced physical or sexual violence in the past 12 months.perceNtage of ever-married womeN aNd meN who have experieNced physicalor sexual violeNce by aNy husbaNd/wife/partNer iN the past 12 moNthsSource: UBOS and ICF International, 2012Significant proportions of teenage girls (15–19 years) haveexperienced violence.58% of 15–19-year-old young women have experienced physical or sexual violence.Violence is also perpetrated against pregnant women, which putsthe unborn child’s wellbeing at risk.9% of 15–19-year-olds who have ever been pregnant have experienced physicalviolence during pregnancy.Eastern (25%) and West Nile (23%) have the greatest proportion of women whohave experienced physical violence while pregnant.Women with no education are twice as likely to experience physical violenceduring pregnancy (21%) as are women with a secondary school education or more.Women in the lowest wealth quintile experience physical violence more frequentlyduring pregnancy (5 in every 20) than women in the highest quintile (2 in every 20).179