Aggregation bias and woman abuse - Variations by male peer support, region, language, and school type

Many researchers have been attracted to broad, national-level surveys as as an antidote to the more usual practice of studying woman abuse in one loca tion or campus and presuming that the results generalize to the entire popu lation. However the reverse error is also possible: presuming that one nati onal,rate may adequately represent a variety of different regions, types of schools, and cultural groups This article analyzes the Canadian National S urvey data to compare geographic, regions, types of schools, and whether th e students took the survey in French or English. None of these factors infl uenced the results. Male peer support measures, as hypothesized, did strong ly affect male behavior in both physical and sexual abuse.