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Living with Fear: India unsafe, say women
Published on Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 22:08, Updated on Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 19:55 in 
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STATE OF FEAR: Survey quizzed 4,000 women across 160 locations in 20 states.
The CNN-IBN-Indian Express-CSDS “State of the Nation Survey- An Exclusive Survey of Indian Women” was designed and analysed by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
The findings presented are based a sample of 39,98 women respondents in 160 locations spreading over 13 metropolitan or 'million plus' cities, 17 big cities with population over a lakh, 11 small towns with population less than a lakh and 68 rural locations.
The respondents were randomly selected from female names on the electoral rolls in each location. The urban areas were over-sampled in order to get a detailed picture of various kinds of towns and cities.
Urban women comprised 56 per cent of our sample, although only 28 per cent of the country's women stay in urban areas. This over-sampling of urban areas has to be kept in mind while reading any figure for 'all' respondents. Despite this limitation, the social profile of the achieved sample is fairly representative: 75 percent Hindus, 12 percent Muslims, 14 percent Dalits and 10 percent ST.
The fieldwork for the study was conducted between January 10 and 16, 2008. More than 320 investigators and supervisors (about 80 percent among them being women) conducted face to face interviews at the place of residence of the respondent using a standard-structured questionnaire in the language spoken and understood by the respondent.
Sanjay Kumar of the CSDS directed the survey. The field work was coordinated by P. Narsimha Rao (Andhra Pradesh), Rakesh Ranjan (Bihar), Kinjal Sampat (Delhi), Priyavdan M Patel (Gujarat), B.S.Padmavathi (Karnataka), Sajjad Ibrahim (Kerala), G. Koteswara Prasad (Tamil Nadu), Ram Shankar (Madhya Pradesh), Nitin Birmal (Maharashtra), Jagroop Sekhon (Punjab), Harish Kumar (Haryana), Baba Mayaram (Chhattisgarh), Sanjay Lodha (Rajasthan), A.K. Verma (Uttar Pradesh), Suprio Basu (West Bengal), Harishwar Dayal (Jharkhand), S.N Misra (Orissa) Akhil Ranjan Datta (Assam), Mangi Singh (Manipur), Rajesh Deb (Meghalaya). The team that designed, coordinated and analyzed the survey at CSDS comprised of Yogendra Yadav, Sanjeer Alam, Praveen Rai, Dhananjai Joshi, Vikas Gautam, Himanshu Bhattacharya, K.A.Q.A Hilal and Kanchan Malhotra.
Young women are more vulnerable in public places | ||
Age group | Teasing | Molestation |
| All | 33 | 14 |
| Young women (below 25) | 42 | 17 |
| Note: All figures are for per cent of women up to 45 years who faced harassment at least once in the last one year in public places like street/mohalla or market. 'Teasing' sands for any form of verbal harassment including lewd comments and 'molestation' stands for any form of physical harassment. | ||
Work place harassment cuts across occupations | |
Age group | Teasing or molestation |
| Teasing or molestation | 22 |
| Office goers | 28 |
| Manual labourer | 36 |
| Note: All figures are for per cent of working women who faced physical or verbal harassment at least once in the last one year at their work placer. | |
Women being harassed in public transport | ||
Locality | Teasing | Molestation |
| All | 27 | 15 |
| Metropolitan | 39 | 26 |
| Young metro | 54 | 30 |
| Note: All figures are for per cent of women up to 45 years who faced harassment at least once in the last one year in public transport. 'Teasing' sands for any form of verbal harassment including lewd comments and 'molestation' stands for any form of physical harassment. | ||
Women are unsure of going to police even if molested in public | ||
All | Poor | |
| Will approach police | 53 | 48 |
| No, will not | 14 | 15 |
| Not sure/ Cant say | 33 | 38 |
| Note: All figures in percent. | ||
High incidence of domestic violence | |
Those who were beaten by | % |
| Husband | 17 |
| In-laws | 6 |
| Father | 12 |
| Employer | 4 |
| Teacher | 17 |
| Note: All figures in per cent of (married women for husband/in-laws; unmarried women for father, working women for employer and students for teachers) women below 50 years who were hit at least once in the last one year. Interviewed held in the presence of husband and other adult male family members are excluded from the analysis. | |
Working women face more violence from husband and/or in-laws | |
All | 19 |
| Housewives | 16 |
| Working women | 23 |
| Note: All figures in per cent of married women who were hit by their husband or in-laws at least once in the last one year. | |
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All i see is people favouring either men or women. What about favoring the truth.
Truth is that it is not
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Yeah, i don't think being swindled can be remotely compared to beign raped or molested. And if yo're going to
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Like the women Say - Living with fear: India is unsafe is TRUE but in the case of Men not
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Fabricated poll, with hand picked participants. They have ulterior motives.
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It is the same survey gorup who familed to predict the Gujrat pool, how we can belive this study?
Further ,
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