Uganda Violence Against Children Survey 2015
General Info
Original or alternative title
2015 Uganda VACS
Provider
Coverage type
Country
Time period covered
September, 2015 - November, 2015
Data type
Survey:
Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview
Summary
The 2015 Uganda 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 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
AfriChild Centre, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ChildFund International (CFI), Makerere University School of Public Health (Uganda), Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) (Uganda), Together for Girls, Transcultural Psychological Organisation (Uganda), UNICEF Uganda, Uganda Bureau of Statistics, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Uganda Violence Against Children Survey 2015.