Honduras Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS)

In 2017, the Government of Honduras launched the Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS), with technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the Together for Girls partnership. The VACS measure multiple forms of violence against children and adolescents including sexual, physical, and emotional; they also provide important data on risk factors, protective factors, and consequences of violence. In 2019, the Government of Honduras launched its VACS report with support from CDC, USAID, and other partners. To achieve these purposes, the Honduras VACS assessed the experiences of females and males ages 13-24 via a nationally representative household survey. Individuals ages 13-24 were selected to better understand childhood violence. Moreover, the study selected an additional stratum that was representative of five cities. This stratum included urban areas of Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, Choloma, Tela, and La Ceiba. This urban stratum represents a high priority for data because of high rates of community violence in urban areas. In this report, significantly different findings in urban areas relative to national findings are reported only in the text. Additional details on the sampling and methodology are included in Appendix B: Supplementary Sampling Methods.