Reviewer’s report
Title: 
The effect of rural-urban residence and education on Intimate Partner
Violence among women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Meta-Analysis of Health
Survey Data
Version: 
0 
Date: 
21 Apr 2020
Reviewer: 
Shreya Bhandari
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All women aged 15-49 who were 127 usual members of the selected households
and women who spent the night before the survey in the
selected households were eligible for interviewing.
Observed numbers of women sampled
and who experienced IPV were extracted to determine relative risks (RRs) of
IPV when exposed to high
education and residing in urban areas .
This sentence needs to be paraphrased or broken down. I had to read it thrice to
understand what are the authors trying to say.
Some of the reasons for the low prevalence of
IPV in the region could be due to positive changes in attitudes towards violence
against women in these
countries (16) or the rigid culture of patriarchy making reporting of incidences of
IPV almost impossible
because it is viewed as being disrespectful to the husband . 
Discussion section needs to be beefed up with more on the cultural and social
scene in the various African countries.
I would recommend statistical review by some other reviewers as well . Needs
extensive English editing.
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