ATLANTA: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has hired Ogilvy Public Relations to promote domestic violence data it has collected in the past two years.

In 2010, the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control began to gather information about intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking in conjunction with the National Institutes of Justice.

The CDC began the study after it realized there was “a lack of reliable information on the incidence and prevalence of [intimate partner ...