To examine the persistence of IPV and barriers to leaving, we focus on the period between the antenatal and 9-month surveys and the period between the 54-month and 8-year surveys. [...] Third, focussing on mothers who are in a relationship at the start of one of the inter-survey periods and for whom we have relationship status at the end of the inter-survey period, we use regression analysis to investigate the personal and relationship characteristics associated with a relationship ending by the end of the period, and how these differ if IPV is present. [...] We refer to the probability a relationship ends if IPV is present minus the probability it ends if IPV is not present as the ‘marginal effect of IPV on a relationship ending’.4 For this analysis, we run probit regressions where the dependent variable is an indicator for the mother’s relationship having ended by the end of the period, and control for the characteristics shown to be significantly as. [...] We also use characteristics of the mother and sometimes her partner in the first of the two surveys and the antenatal survey as controls in the regressions. [...] Instead, Table 1 provides descriptive statistics that show how the average characteristics of mothers vary when we restrict the sample by requiring partners to be surveyed, reports of IPV to be non-missing, mothers to remain in the survey until the 54-month wave, or the mother’s relationship status to be known in the survey after a survey in which she was in a relationship with known IPV status.
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Table of Contents
- Isabelle Sin Shannon Minehan Janet Fanslow and Alayne Mikahere- 1
- Hall 1
- March 2024 1
- Document information 2
- Author contact details 2
- Acknowledgements 2
- Disclaimer 2
- Motu Economic and Public Policy Research 3
- JEL codes 4
- Keywords 4
- Summary haiku 4
- Table of Contents 5
- Table of Figures and Tables 6
- Table of Appendix Figures and Tables 8
- Executive summary 10
- Overview 10
- Research questions 10
- Background 10
- Data and methodology 11
- Results How common is intimate partner violence among parents of young 14
- Results How persistent is intimate partner violence 16
- Results What are the biggest barriers to a victim leaving a partner who uses 18
- Policy recommendations 21
- 1 Introduction 23
- 2 Literature summary 26
- 3 Policy context 31
- 4 Data 33
- 4.1 Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal study 33
- 4.2 Analysis samples 34
- 4.3 Conflict and intimate partner violence variables 38
- 4.4 Capturing relationships ending 41
- 5 Methodology and results 42
- 5.1 How common are within-relationship conflict and intimate partner violence 43
- NZCVS data 44
- NZCVS sample construction 44
- NZCVS IPV definition 45
- NZCVS rates of IPV by life stage 45
- 5.2 How persistent is intimate partner violence 62
- 5.3 What factors are differently associated with a relationship that involves conflict or IPV ending 68
- 1 Φ- 68
- Φ. is the cumulative standard normal 68
- Demographics 78
- Level of commitment in the relationship 85
- Mothers financial reliance on her partner 86
- Value mother gets from the relationship 87
- Mothers access to physical and psychological resources 88
- Mothers access to outside help 91
- Mothers trust in and ability to navigate the system 95
- Mothers connection to her traditional culture 95
- Partners characteristics 97
- 6 Limitations 102
- 7 Conclusions 104
- References 111
- Appendix A Figures 119
- Appendix C What factors are differently associated with a relationship ending if the partner uses violence Detailed description of regressions 137
- Demographics 137
- Level of commitment in the relationship 141
- Mothers financial reliance on her partner 145
- Value mother gets from the relationship 148
- Mothers access to physical and psychological resources 151
- Mothers access to outside help 156
- Mothers trust in and ability to navigate the system 167
- Mothers connection to her traditional culture 170
- Partners characteristics demographics 172
- Partners characteristics financial independence 174
- Partners characteristics value gained from the relationship 176
- Partners characteristics access to physical and psychological resources 177
- Partners characteristics ability to manipulate the system 179
