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Zambia Violence Against Children Survey (VACS) 2014

General Info

Original or alternative title 
Zambia VACS 2014
Provider 
Together for Girls
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Geography 
Zambia (ZMB)
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 
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
University of Zambia
Central Statistical Office (Zambia)
Ministry of Youth Sport and Child Development (Zambia)
Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) (Zambia)
Save the Children International
Together for Girls
Funders 
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Save the Children International
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.

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