Experience of domestic violence Data dictionary

Proportion of women with disability aged 18 years and over who have experienced family or domestic violence, compared with women without disability^1,2

2021–22

2021–22

Women aged 18 and over.

Summary and trend reporting: Number of women aged 18 and over with and without disability or a long-term health condition, who have experienced violence by an intimate partner and/or emotional abuse by a cohabiting partner in the last 3 years.

Population groups reporting: Number of women aged 18 and over with and without disability or a long-term health condition, who have experienced violence by an intimate partner or family member, and/or emotional or economic abuse by a cohabiting partner since the age of 15.

Number of women aged 18 and over with and without disability or a long-term health condition.

Summary and trend reporting: Number of women aged 18 and over with/without disability or a long-term health condition, who have experienced violence by an intimate partner and/or emotional abuse by a cohabiting partner in the last 3 years, divided by the number of women aged 18 and over with/without disability or a long-term health condition.

Population groups reporting: Number of women aged 18 and over with/without disability or a long-term health condition, who have experienced violence by an intimate partner or family member, and/or emotional or economic abuse by a cohabiting partner since the age of 15, divided by the number of women aged 18 and over with/without disability or a long-term health condition.

Expressed as a percentage.

100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

1. The Strategy would like to see the following tracked – Proportion of females with disability 15 years and above who have experienced family or domestic violence compared with women without disability. Available data do not allow the exact measure listed by the Strategy to be tracked. The data source does not collect information from females aged 15–17, who are therefore not included in the results presented for this measure.
2. The computation methods for summary/trend reporting and for population groups reporting for this measure differ due to:
   • the need for data reference periods to be mutually exclusive (that is, not span over the same years) to assess change over time
   • changing definitions of family and domestic violence in 2012, 2016, and 2021–22 data collections, and the need to present conceptually consistent information across time periods.
3. Intimate partner includes cohabiting partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, data, ex-boyfriend, and ex-girlfriend. Cohabiting partner refers to a partner the person lives with (current partner), or lived with at some point (previous partner) in a married or de facto relationship. Family member includes parent, child, sibling and other relative or in-law.
4. Disability status is collected as at the time of the survey and may differ from the time that violence or abuse occurred.