People who experienced intimate partner violence

3.3 People have equal, healthy, and respectful relationships.

Decreased prevalence of violence and abuse in family and domestic relationships.

Proportion of people who experienced intimate partner violence in the last 12 months.

A decrease in the prevalence of violence by an intimate partner over time will indicate that people are choosing to use less or no violence.

Prevalence data relate to the number of people who have experienced violence, not the number of people who have perpetrated violence, or the severity or frequency of violence in an intimate relationship.

2021–22

The number of people who have experienced violence from an intimate partner in the last 12 months.

Data element: Person—experienced violence
Data source: ABS PSS
Data source type: Survey

People aged 18 years and over.

Data element : Person
Data source: ABS PSS
Data source type: Survey

This measure is the number of people who have experienced violence from an intimate partner expressed as a percentage of people aged 18 years and over.

100 x (Numerator/Denominator)

For each reference period, nationally, by: 

• state and territory
• sex 
• age group (for younger women and older women)
• country of birth.

For disaggregated data, the reference period will be extended to 2 years where required to allow for more reliable reporting. 

Intimate partner includes current partner (living with), previous partner (has lived with), boyfriend/girlfriend/date and ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend (never lived with).
Sexual violence is defined as the occurrence, attempt or threat of sexual assault. 
Physical violence is defined as the occurrence, attempt or threat of physical assault.
Statistics will not be reported if they have a high relative standard error and are considered too unreliable to measure changes over time.

For some population groups, numbers may be too small to be reported on separately.  
State and territory data in 2021–22 are only available for women. 
Where the RSE for numbers and estimates is between 25% and 50%, this will be indicated in the data visualisation and any accompanying data tables. Where the RSE is greater than 50%, the data will not be published.