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Rwanda Violence Against Children and Youth Survey 2015

General Info

Original or alternative title 
Rwanda VACYS 2015
Provider 
Together for Girls
Tabulations only
Geography 
Rwanda (RWA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
November, 2015 - December, 2015
Data type
Survey: Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview
Summary 

The 2015-16 Rwanda Violence against Children and Youth Survey was conducted as part of the Violence Against Children Surveys program led by the CDC. Questionnaires collected information from a nationally representative sample of 2,214 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 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Together for Girls
Ministry of Health (Rwanda)
Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (Rwanda)
National Commission for Children (NCC) (Rwanda)
Ministry of Education (Rwanda)
Rwanda National Police (RNP)
National Institute of Statistics (Rwanda)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Funders 
International Development Research Centre (Canada)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Suggested citation 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Ministry of Education (Rwanda), Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (Rwanda), Ministry of Health (Rwanda), National Commission for Children (NCC) (Rwanda), National Institute of Statistics (Rwanda), Rwanda National Police (RNP), Together for Girls, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Rwanda Violence Against Children and Youth Survey 2015.

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