Need for a gender-sensitive human security framework: results of a quantitative study of human security and sexual violence in Djohong District, Cameroon

Table 8 Sexual violence, total population

Characteristic	# with characteristic	Total respondents	Weighted % (95% CI)*
Lifetime prevalence	206**	589	35.2 (28.7 – 42.2)
Perpetrator
Husband	131	205**	64.0 (54.3 – 72.5)
Friend or Member of the Community	41	205	20.0 (14.2 – 27.5)
Soldier/rebel or coupeurs de route***	35	205	17.1 (10.7 – 26.1)
Unknown	6	205	2.9 (1.2 – 7.2)
Estimated population-wide sexual violence by partner/husband	131	588	22.3 (17.1 – 28.5)

*Data presented as mean % and weighted % (95% CI).
**206 women answered ‘yes’ when asked about sexual violence, however one respondent declined to provide any further information. Thus, further analyses are on 205 respondents.
***8 respondents reported both soldiers/rebel and coupers de route with regards to episodes of sexual violence by multiple perpetrators. Soldiers/rebels and coupers de route were combined based on qualitative data collected by the authors that suggests overlap among these groups in Northwest CAR.

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