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The Sri Lanka List Experiment on Wartime Sexual Violence

Description

This dataset, which includes male respondents from Tamil, is a subset of the list experiment administered in Sri Lanka on wartime sexual violence.The main question reads as follows: Now we would like to ask you some more questions about what happened during the war. Please refer to the following list and tell me how many of these experiences happened to you during the war. Please don’t tell me which specific statements you believe to be true, only how many: (1) I won money in a lottery or competition; (2) I was involved in an accident; (3) I received help from a stranger; (4) (I was personally sexually assaulted.) The forth item in bracket is the sensitive item. In addition to the above list, there are also two direct questions asking about sexual abuse.

Format

A data frame containing the following 9 variables for 247 observations.

sexaussault integer Reported item count for list experiment question.
sexaussault_d integer First direct item.
sexaussault_d2 integer Second direct item.
treatment integer Indicator for list experiment treatment group.
age numeric Age.
edu integer Education.
eastern integer Whether the respondent comes from eastern Tamil.
assist.army integer Whether the respondent has assisted rebel groups.
displace integer Displacement.

References

Traunmüller, R., Kijewski, S., & Freitag, M. (2019). The silent victims of sexual violence during war: Evidence from a list experiment in Sri Lanka. Journal of conflict resolution, 63(9), 2015-2042. doi:10.1177/0022002719828053


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