People who experienced sexual harassment

3.3 People have equal, healthy, and respectful relationships.

Decreased prevalence of sexual violence.

Proportion of people who experienced sexual harassment in the last 12 months.

A decrease in the prevalence of sexual harassment over time will indicate that people are choosing to use less or no violence.

Data about sexual harassment should be considered alongside the prevalence of sexual assault and other forms of sexual violence. 

2021–22

The number of people who experienced sexual harassment in the last 12 months.

Data element: Person—experienced sexual harassment
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 sexual harassment in the last 12 months expressed as a proportion of people aged 18 years and over.

100 x (Numerator/Denominator)

For each reference period, nationally, by: 

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

Sexual harassment is considered to have occurred when a person has experienced or been subjected to behaviours which made them feel uncomfortable and were offensive due to their sexual nature.
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 Where the RSE is greater than 50%, the data will not be published.