Family, domestic and sexual violence data in Australia

Notes 

1. Victims data does not reflect unique people. If a person is the victim of multiple incidents recorded by police throughout the reference period, each unique incident is counted. Where incidents include multiple offences that fall under different ANZSOC offence categories, each different offence category is counted once per incident.
2. Sexual assault refers to any physical contact, or intent of contact, of a sexual nature directed toward another person where that person does not give consent, gives consent as a result of intimidation or deception, or consent is unable to be given because of youth, temporary/permanent (mental) incapacity or familial relationship. Sexual assault includes aggravated sexual assault and non-aggravated sexual assault.
3. Total for age-specific visualisations includes victims for whom age was not specified.
4. Indigenous family and domestic violence data are available for New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Northern Territory only.
5. Relationship data is not available for Western Australia. Data presented by relationship is based on data from all other states and territories.  
6. Family member total includes partner, ex-partner, other family member and other family member not further defined.
7. Partner includes de-facto, spouse, boyfriend and girlfriend.
8. Ex-partner includes separated partner, ex-spouse, ex-boyfriend and ex-girlfriend.
9. Other family member includes parent, child, sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousins, grandparents and other family member not elsewhere classified.
10. Non-family member total includes all persons known to the victim who were not included in the family total, e.g., friend, teacher, etc
11. A weapon is defined as any object that can be used to cause injury or fear of injury in the commission of a crime. It also includes imitation weapons and implied weapons (e.g. where a weapon is not seen by the victim but the offender claims to possess one). Parts of the body such as fists and feet are not included as a weapon.
12. An investigation is finalised when the case is no longer considered open and an offender has been proceeded against through court action or non-court action, or an offender was not proceeded against as a result of either the circumstances of the alleged offender, or because the offence could not be verified. Cases where the investigation has not been finalised and no offender has been proceeded against at the time of recording the outcome includes cases where the investigation is ongoing or pending/suspended.

13. For more information see Methods, Glossary and Data sources.

Source

Annual ABS Recorded Crimes - Victim