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Using a sub-nationally representative survey, we examine how young women’s nature of occupation affects the domestic violence experienced by them. We find that women in agricultural/non-agricultural labor activities have significantly higher chances of experiencing domestic violence compared to women who are either housewives or unemployed. Also, women whose mothers have experienced domestic violence are at a substantially higher risk of experiencing the same. Further, women belonging to weaker social sections have significantly higher odds of experiencing domestic violence compared to those belonging to “Upper” caste category. Moreover, the odds of experience of domestic violence reduces significantly with the increase in years of education. Surprisingly, women who opted for love marriage and women from the economically-demographically advanced states of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have significantly higher chances of facing domestic violence compared to those choosing arranged marriage and those from relatively poorer states such as Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand, respectively.
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Among other studies, the ecological framework proposed by Heise (1998) recognized the possible role of individual, familial, societal/community factors in placing women at the risk of violence within marriage.
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Results of multicollinearity tests can be provided upon request. As a rule of thumb, a VIFi > 10 indicates harmful collinearity (Kennedy 1998). For all the variables in our analysis the VIFs were much below 5, except in case of father’s occupation being cultivator where it was 5.
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Choudhary, A., Singh, A. (2020). Experience of Domestic Violence by Young Women in India: Does the Nature of Occupation Play Any Role?. In: Jivetti, B., Hoque, M.N. (eds) Population Change and Public Policy. Applied Demography Series, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57069-9_15
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