The 2019-20 Gambia Demographic and Health Survey

Brief Description

The 2019-20 GDHS implemented a module of questions on domestic violence, the most common form of violence against women. In accord with the World Health Organization’s guidelines on the ethical collection of information on domestic violence, only one eligible woman per household was randomly selected for interviewing, and the module was not implemented if privacy could not be obtained. These restrictions resulted in a total of 2,470 women being successfully interviewed. Specially constructed weights were used to adjust for the selection of only one woman per household and to ensure that the domestic violence subsample was nationally representative.