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Table 2 Pairwise tetrachoric correlationsa of national laws against violence against women and girls, using data for 2016 and 2018 from the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law database

From: Development and validation of the LoVI: the Laws on Violence against women and girls Index

2016

 

SH_com

SH_gen

SH_emp

SH_edu

ChildMar

DV_com

DV_gen

DV_phy

DV_sex

DV_emo

DV_eco

MarRape

SH_com

1.00

           

SH_gen

0.78*

1.00

          

SH_emp

0.88*

0.97*

1.00

         

SH_edu

0.99*

0.79*

0.79*

1.00

        

ChildMar

0.50*

0.16

0.60*

0.51*

1.00

       

DV_com

0.25

0.17

0.23

0.29*

0.38

1.00

      

DV_gen

0.42*

0.39*

0.52*

0.43*

0.71*

0.90*

1.00

     

DV_phy

0.45*

0.35*

0.50*

0.46*

0.69*

0.91*

0.99*

1.00

    

DV_sex

0.31*

0.18

0.34*

0.34*

0.51*

0.98*

0.95*

0.96*

1.00

   

DV_emo

0.37*

0.31*

0.49*

0.39*

0.67*

0.92*

0.99*

0.99*

0.97*

1.00

  

DV_eco

0.21

0.12

0.17

0.25

0.40*

0.99*

0.91*

0.92*

0.93*

0.93*

1.00

 

MarRape

0.24

0.35*

0.45*

0.24

0.35

0.56*

0.64*

0.67*

0.59*

0.65*

0.54*

1.00

2018

 

SH_com

SH_gen

SH_emp

SH_edu

ChildMar

DV_com

DV_gen

DV_phy

DV_sex

DV_emo

DV_eco

MarRape

SH_com

1.00

           

SH_gen

0.77*

1.00

          

SH_emp

0.87*

0.96*

1.00

         

SH_edu

0.99*

0.78*

0.79*

1.00

        

ChildMar

0.44

−0.02

0.56*

0.45

1.00

       

DV_com

0.27*

0.07

0.18

0.30*

0.45*

1.00

      

DV_gen

0.52*

0.26

0.44*

0.53*

0.65*

0.91*

1.00

     

DV_phy

0.54*

0.23

0.49*

0.55*

0.63*

0.92*

0.99*

1.00

    

DV_sex

0.38*

0.09

0.32*

0.40*

0.48*

0.97*

0.97*

0.97*

1.00

   

DV_emo

0.49*

0.22

0.43*

0.51*

0.62*

0.92*

0.99*

0.99*

0.97*

1.00

  

DV_eco

0.28*

0.09

0.20

0.31*

0.46*

0.99*

0.92*

0.92*

0.95*

0.93*

1.00

 

MarRape

0.23

0.26

0.42*

0.23

0.36

0.57*

0.62*

0.64*

0.63*

0.60*

0.57*

1.00

  1. SH Sexual Harassment, _com Composite, _gen general legislation, _emp employment, _edu education, ChildMar Child Marriage, DV Domestic Violence, _phy physical, _sex sexual, _emo emotional, _eco economic, MarRape Marital Rape
  2. Tetrachoric correlations are zero-adjusted so that when a cell has a zero count; Stata increases the frequency from zero to one-half while maintaining row and column totals
  3. *next to figures indicates significance at 0.05 level