The main objective of this study was to develop a map of Domestic Violence in Peru at the national and departmental level, based on the results of the Population and Family Health ENDES 2007-2008. Developed a Global Index Family Violence (IGVF) that summarizes the indicators of physical violence, psychological and sexual violence. The construction of such an index was performed by multivariate PRINCALS method, also called categorical principal component analysis or nonlinear. Since the variables are measured in nominal or ordinal scales are not related in a linear fashion and, therefore, is required to use the optimal scaling procedure is usually called, using the above method. This index allowed the mapping in question, whose main advantage is to overcome the fragmentary information on physical, psychological, sexual and associated variables such as age, marital status, educational leve...

The main objective of this study was to develop a map of Domestic Violence in Peru at the national and departmental level, based on the results of the Population and Family Health ENDES 2007-2008. Developed a Global Index Family Violence (IGVF) that summarizes the indicators of physical violence, psychological and sexual violence. The construction of such an index was performed by multivariate PRINCALS method, also called categorical principal component analysis or nonlinear. Since the variables are measured in nominal or ordinal scales are not related in a linear fashion and, therefore, is required to use the optimal scaling procedure is usually called, using the above method. This index allowed the mapping in question, whose main advantage is to overcome the fragmentary information on physical, psychological, sexual and associated variables such as age, marital status, educational leve...