Is beating a woman ever justified?

Global Health Magazine has some data up on the “% of women who believe it is OK for husbands to beat them.” If you click through the original data, the question is more extensive:

% of girls and women aged 15-49 who responded that a husband or partner is justified in hitting or beating his wife under certain circumstances (2001-2007)

I was going to cross-reference the data with the World Values Survey (which has a similar question), but I don’t have time right now, so I’ll simply pass on the raw data sorted by country. There’s a rather large gap.

Jordan 90
Guinea 85.6
Zambia 85.4
Sierra Leone 85
Lao PDR 81.2
Ethiopia 81
Congo 75.7
Somalia 75.7
Mali 75.2
Tajikistan 74.4
Gambia The 74
Burkina Faso 71.4
Maldives 70.2
Uganda 70.2
Niger 70.1
Uzbekistan 69.6
Algeria 67.9
Kenya 67.9
Senegal 65.2
Côte d’Ivoire 64.5
Nigeria 64.5
Vietnam 63.8
Tanzania 59.6
Liberia 59.3
Iraq 59.1
Cameroon 55.6
Cambodia 55.2
India 54.4
Togo 53.2
Guinea-Bissau 51.5
Egypt 50
Azerbaijan 49
Rwanda 48
Zimbabwe 47.7
Ghana 46.7
Benin 46.6
Turkey 39.2
Swaziland 37.9
Kyrgyzstan 37.7
Turkmenistan 37.7
Namibia 35.2
Sao Tome & Principe 32
Albania 29.8
Haiti 29
Malawi 28.2
Madagascar 28
Indonesia 24.8
Philippines 24.1
Nepal 23.2
Armenia 22.1
Moldova 20.8
Macedonia 20.7
Mongolia 20.4
Guyana 17.9
Nicaragua 16.9
Honduras 15.5
Suriname 13.2
Belize 12.2
Montenegro 10.9
Kazakhstan 10.4
Dominican Republic 8.6
Trinidad & Tobago 7.6
Georgia 6.9
Serbia 6.2
Jamaica 6.1
Ukraine 5
Bosnia & Herzegovina 4.8

The gap between Tajikstan and Kyrgyzstan makes me suspicious, the data are from the same survey so there shouldn’t have been differences in the wording of the question.
H/T SM

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