Zambia Violence Against Children Survey (VACS) 2014
General Info
Original or alternative title
Zambia VACS 2014
Coverage type
Country
Time period covered
August, 2014 - September, 2014
Data type
Survey:
Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview
Summary
The 2014 Zambia Violence against Children Survey (VACS) was conducted as part of the Violence Against Children Surveys program led by the CDC. Questionnaires collected information from a nationally representative sample of 1,819 young men and women ages 13 to 24, including topics such as experiences with physical, sexual, and emotional violence, drug and alcohol use, education, employment, health care use, as well as information on participants' households and living conditions.
Keywords
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Alcohol use, Assets, Child labor, Childhood sexual violence, Community health clinics, Condoms, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Counseling, Domestic violence, Education, Education access, Electricity, Employment, Family size, Fertility, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health care use, Health facilities, Health literacy, Health status, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Illicit drug use, Interpersonal violence, Intimate partner violence, Land ownership, Languages, Lifestyle risk factors, Livestock, Marital status, Mass media, Medical tests, Mental health symptoms, Nonprofits, Parental survival, Poverty, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Self-inflicted injuries, Sexual behavior, Sexual violence, State actor violence, Suicide, Telephones, Tobacco smoking, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Violence, Violence-related risk factors, Waste disposal, Water supply
Citation
Contributors
Funders
Suggested citation
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Central Statistical Office (Zambia), Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) (Zambia), Ministry of Youth Sport and Child Development (Zambia), Save the Children International, Together for Girls, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), University of Zambia. Zambia Violence Against Children Survey (VACS) 2014.