2000

The Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women, sponsored by the World Health Organization, between 2000 and 2003 collected data from over 24 000 women in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand, and the United Republic of Tanzania. The Study assessed women's experiences of violence using a questionnaire developed and validated for cross-cultural use, with a special focus on violence by intimate partners. It also investigated how such violence is associated with ill-health and injury, and
the strategies that women use to cope with the violence.

In Thailand, the research was jointly conducted by the Institute of Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, and the Foundation for Women. It was the first population-based survey conducted in Thailand on this issue and data collection took place in 2000.