Proportion of population subjected to (a) physical violence and (c) sexual violence in the previous 12 months

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Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Geographical Area: England and Wales

Unit of Measurement: Percentage (%)

Footnote:

(a) Physical violence;

1. The period April to March is being used to report annual data.

2. Data broken down by income is not available for the year ending March 2019 as this data was not collected in the survey.

3. Please note the y axis does not go to 100% for ease of visualisation.

(c) Sexual violence;

1. Data for the year ending March 2022 are not National Statistics. They are based on six months of data collection from the face-to-face Crime Survey for England and Wales between October 2021 and March 2022. Caution should be taken when using these data due to the impact of the reduced data collection period and lower response rates on the quality of the estimates. Other data points represent financial years, April to March. 

2. Concerns around confidentiality and respondent safeguarding led to domestic abuse questions being excluded from the Telephone Crime Survery for England and Wales (TCSEW). Therefore, there is no data available for the year ending March 2021.

3. From October 2021 the upper age limit for the self-completion module was increased to ask all respondents aged 16 and over.

4. New sexual violence questions were introduced into the survey the year ending March 2013, and estimates from this year onwards are calculated using these new questions. Estimates for earlier years are calculated from the original questions with an adjustment applied to make them comparable to the new questions.

5. Data broken down by income is not available for the year ending March 2019 as this data was not collected in the survey.

6. Please note the y axis does not go to 100% for ease of visualisation.

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