Women who feel safe using public transport alone after dark

3.4 Gender equality, positive relationships, and positive masculinities are promoted across the community including in faith-based, sporting, entertainment, educational institutions, digital spaces, the arts, and media organisations.

Increased general feelings of safety.

Proportion of women who feel safe using public transport alone after dark in the last 12 months.

An increase in general feelings of safety across the community would indicate a greater perception that prevention initiatives are effective in keeping people and communities safe. 

2021–22

The number of women who said they felt safe using public transport alone after dark in the last 12 months.

Data element: Person—feelings of safety
Data source: ABS PSS
Data source type: Survey

Number of women who used public transport alone after dark in the last 12 months.

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

This measure is the number of women who felt safe in the last 12 months expressed as a proportion of women who used public transport alone after dark in the last 12 months.

100 x (Numerator/Denominator)

For each reference period, nationally, by: 

• state and territory
• age
• country of birth
• disability status
• sexual orientation
• remoteness.

If the respondent felt varying levels of safety depending on what mode of public transport they used, they were asked to consider their feelings of safety when using public transport in general.
A person’s perception of their own safety in the community can be affected by many individual-level and community-level factors, and may vary across geographic areas.
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.  
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 Where the RSE is greater than 50%, the data will not be published.