Female victims of intimate partner homicide

Women are safe and respected in all settings, and experience economic, social, political and cultural equality.

Increase in the number of women who are safe.

Decrease in the number of female victims of intimate partner homicide.

Any death due to intimate partner violence is unacceptable. A low or decreasing rate is desirable.

2022–23

Number of female intimate partner homicide victims in a 12-month period.

Data element: Person—victim of homicide
Data source: AIC NHMP
Data source type: Administrative

Estimate resident population in a 12-month period for females aged 18 years and over.

Data element: Person
Data source: ABS National, state and territory population
Data source type: Estimates

This measure is expressed as a number and number per 100,000 females aged 18 years and over.

Numerator
Rate: 100,000 x (Numerator/Denominator)

For each financial year, nationally and by: 

• state and territory
• age
• country of birth 
• remoteness.

Data for the National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) are derived from both police records and coronial records. Data from police records are cross-referenced with coronial records from the National Coronial Information System. NHMP data are supplemented with material from court documents where available. The NHMP collects information on homicide incidents, victims and offenders. The homicide classification used here is based on the closest relationship between the victim and primary offender. Intimate partner homicides include homicides where the relationship of the victim to the offender was an intimate partner – victim and offender are current or former partners (married, de facto, boyfriend/girlfriend).
In the NHMP, homicide refers to: 

• all cases resulting in a person or persons being charged with murder or manslaughter
• all murder–suicides classed as murder by police
• all driving causing death offences where the offender was charged with murder, manslaughter or equivalent offences
• all other deaths classed as homicides by police, including infanticides, whether or not an offender was apprehended.

It excludes attempts to unlawfully kill and conspiracy to kill.
The number in this measure is reported as a count of victims.