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Types of Abuse Reported by Mississippi Mothers, Mississippi PRAMS, 2019-2021 – Image Long Description

Overview

This clustered bar chart displays the percentage of Mississippi mothers who reported four types of abuse or controlling behaviors during 2019, 2020 and 2021. The four categories shown are Threatened, No Safety, Felt Controlled and Forced Sex. Percentages are presented for each year and range from 0% to 10%. Across all three years, feeling controlled was the most commonly reported experience, while forced sex was the least commonly reported. Most measures declined from 2019 to 2020 and then increased slightly in 2021.

Values

• Threatened: 5.2% in 2019, 3.0% in 2020, and 3.5% in 2021.
• No Safety: 3.5% in 2019, 1.4% in 2020, and 2.4% in 2021.
• Felt Controlled: 5.7% in 2019, 4.4% in 2020, and 3.9% in 2021.
• Forced Sex: 1.1% in 2019, 0.6% in 2020, and 1.3% in 2021.

Presentation

The figure is a clustered vertical bar chart titled "Types of Abuse Reported by Mississippi Mothers, Mississippi PRAMS, 2019-2021." The horizontal axis contains the four abuse categories: Threatened, No Safety, Felt Controlled, and Forced Sex. The vertical axis displays percentages from 0% to 10% in 2-percentage-point intervals. Three colored bars appear within each category representing survey years: blue for 2019, orange for 2020, and green for 2021. Percentage values are shown above each bar. A legend identifying the three years is centered below the chart.

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