Alcohol, Intimate Partner Violence and Household Economy: An Assessment of Liquor Ban in Bihar

Aims and Objective:

• This research seeks to study the impact of alcohol prohibition on intimate partner violence and household economy and wellbeing of poor people in urban Bihar.
• It explores the complex linkages between alcohol and intimate violence and examine how drinking practices diversely interact with other mediating factors to cause violence against women in the private realm.
• This research focuses on drinking practices and situations, the contextual factors of drinking, male attitudes towards women and the other socio-economic dimensions while studying violence against women in Bihar.

 Methodology: 

This study is largely based on primary research. Information was gathered at multi-sites through mixed methods that include both qualitative-participatory and quantitative-survey methods. Besides, secondary research complements and broadens the canvas of the study.

The project plan included four phases spanning over 24 months: first phase (seven months) involved secondary research (analysis of secondary data from National Crime Research Bureau and review of relevant literature); second phase dedicated to primary research (eight months) which involved the collection and analysis of data through a survey of 2000 respondents along with group and individual interviews; third phase (nine months) pertained to report writing and dissemination of results to initiate a debate on in academia and policy circles as well as chalk out directions for further research.