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Laos Violence Against Children Survey 2014

General Info

Original or alternative title 
2014 Violence Against Children Survey in Lao PDR
Provider 
Together for Girls
Tabulations only
Geography 
Lao People's Democratic Republic (LAO)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
October, 2014 - November, 2014
Data type
Survey: Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview
Summary 

The 2014 Laos Violence against Children 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 1,911 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
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Lao Women's Union
Lao Statistics Bureau
National Commission for Mothers and Children (Laos)
Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (Laos)
Funders 
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)
Suggested citation 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Lao Statistics Bureau, Lao Women's Union, Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (Laos), National Commission for Mothers and Children (Laos), Together for Girls, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Laos Violence Against Children Survey 2014.

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