Total Sample (N=225) n (%) No IPVA (N=160)
n (%)
IPV History (N+65)
n (%)
Total 225 160 (71.1) 65 (28.9)
Education
Less than secondary 19 (8.6) 12 (7.6) 7 (11.1)
Secondary 134 (60.9) 91 (58.0) 43 (68.3)
More than secondary 67 (30.5) 54 (34.4) 13 (20.6)
Marital status
Married 156 (69.8) 119 (74.4)*** 37 (57.8)***
Single 32 (14.7) 31 (19.4)*** 1 (1.6)***
Divorced/Separated 36 (15.6) 10 (6.2)*** 26 (40.6)***
Living situation
Lives with primary partner in Almaty 139 (62.3) 98 (61.6) 41 (64.1)
Primary partner does not live in Almaty 84 (37.7) 61 (38.4) 23 (35.9)
Ethnicity
Kazakh 57 (25.4) 44 (27.5)** 13 (20.0)**
Kyrgyz 65  (29) 47 (29.4)** 18 (27.7)**
Uzbek 20 (8.9) 8 (5.0)** 12 (18.5)**
Other (Russian, Uighur, Turkish, Gypsy/Roma,  Dungan, Korean) 82 (36.7) 61 (38.1)** 21 (32.3)**
Immigration status
Legal resident of Kazakhstan 84 (37.3) 62 (38.8) 22 (33.8)
OtherB 141 (62.7) 98 (61.2) 43 (66.2)
Alcohol & drug use
Problematic alcohol use 16 (7.1) 9 (5.6) 7 (10.8)
Any lifetime drug use 7 (3.1) 4 (2.5) 3 (4.7)
Mobility
Has travelled to sell or purchase goods in the last year 84 (37.3) 53 (33.1)* 31 (47.7)*
Above the median number of times traveling to see family and friends in the past year (median = 3 times) 98 (43.6) 61 (38.1)* 37 (56.9)*
Above the median days spent outside of Almaty on the last trip (median = 10 days) 73 (32.4) 48 (30.0) 25 (38.5)
  Mean (SD)
Age 28.6 (4.5) 27.9 (4.8)*** 30.3 (2.9)***
† p<0.1, * p<0.05, ** p<0.01, *** p<0.001
ANever or ever having experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) over the course of one’s lifetime
BIncludes official registration with the migrant office, temporary migrant registration, or illegal
Table 2: Lifetime experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) by socio-demographic and migration characteristics.
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