Reviewer’s report
Title: Prevalence of intimate partner violence against Women and associated factors in Ethiopia
Version: 1 Date: 10 Jun 2019
Reviewer: Angela Taft
Reviewer's report:
I am sorry but I am unable to reassess your amendments as they are not included with your submission,
nor have you indicated anywhere (that I can see) your responses to the original reviewers. You should
tabulate these and highlight them in the revised document, so that a reviewer can see how well you
have responded.
I have noted where I think you need to make substantial changes.
1. Where you mention the WHO Multi-country study in your introduction and note the high prevalence,
you do not include any comparison in your discussion, nor what any differences might mean.
2. At the end of the introduction you say your aim was to assess the prevalence, but this has been done
by the WHO MCS. Surely yours was the reassess the prevalence ten years after the original study?
3. Methods-investigating DV is a sensitive issue. Although you are conducting a secondary data
analysis, say more about how the study sample was acquired in Ethiopia and what proportion of all
women interviewed, were surveyed for DV and how. How do the questions compare with the WHO
MCS study?
4. What is your justification for combining all forms of violence? 
5. Where is your justification and references for the explanatory variables you include and those you
don't? 
6. Table 1 - to what does 'age of mother' refer? Age of  women? 
7.  How much of the data were 'valid' and what was the level of missingness for the variables of interest
that you used?
Results
8.  Please add the overall numbers (N) in each DV category in your tables at the top of each column.
For instance Table 2, beneath Domestic violence (Yes/No - what were the overall numbers? 
9.  Please add N (numbers) to your Table 4. 
Discussion
10. Please outline what your study added to the reasonably large number of studies of IPV in Ethiopia -
often only in pregnancy or not nationwide
11. Add a limitation section to your discussion (the Hosmer-Lemeshow GOF was not ideal) what might
this mean? How might it limit your study to simply an ever-experienced IPV of any kind? 
12. Comment much more comprehensively how your findings differ from the WHO 2006 MCS
13. Please don't simply repeat your findings, but interpret them for readers - why might your Ethiopian
findings find differences in education to those in other African countries?
 Please check the capitals in your references.
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
If not, please specify what is required in your comments to the authors.
Yes
Does the work include the necessary controls?
If not, please specify which controls are required in your comments to the authors.
Unable to assess
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?
If not, please explain in your comments to the authors.
No
Are you able to assess any statistics in the manuscript or would you recommend an
additional statistical review?
If an additional statistical review is recommended, please specify what aspects require further
assessment in your comments to the editors.
I am able to assess the statistics
Quality of written English
Please indicate the quality of language in the manuscript:
Needs some language corrections before being published
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