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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Living in Texas, I'm not sure I want to see the data for US states.
Also Egypt and Jordan. I would've expected them to be similar.
I see the Vietnamese score is pretty high. I've known Vietnamese immigrant communities here in the US. I found them surprisingly violent. Had to talk one guy (a co-worker) out of killing his cousin -- his cousin had started doing drugs and bringing shame to the family. At first I thought he was joking. My co-worker had made a good life for himself in America and was seriously considering throwing it away to settle some family honor score. It was crazy. Guy was 5 ft nothing but scared the hell out of me.
That question is awfully vague. I can imagine situations where hitting a spouse - male or female - would be totally justified. The issue isn't whether, it's when.