Adolescent Peer Violence Survey Data from Asella, Ethiopia

A dataset of 542 school-going adolescents from Asella, Ethiopia, collected via a cross-sectional survey. It measures the prevalence of violence victimization (41.6%) and perpetration (33.8%) and includes psychological and socio-economic variables. The anonymized data was published by Ayalneh Demissie on figshare in 2026.

Use Cases

• Predicting violence victimization risk based on self-efficacy scores and wealth quartile.
• Analyzing the relationship between witnessed community violence and perpetration behavior.
• Identifying multi-level risk factors for adolescent peer violence using socio-ecological variables.
• Training models to classify bullying roles (e.g., Bully-Victims) based on psychosocial traits.

Strengths

• Includes 542 adolescent survey responses with a 99.5% response rate.
• Reports specific prevalence rates: 41.6% for victimization and 33.8% for perpetration.
• Contains derived statistical results, such as an Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) of 2.88 for low self-efficacy predicting victimization.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single study in Asella, Ethiopia.

Provenance

Source

Ayalneh Demissie via figshare.

Collection Method

School-based cross-sectional study using a structured, self-administered questionnaire.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 17:36:35; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Asella, Ethiopia.