Research to policy and practice Violence against women in Australia: Additional analysis of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Personal Safety Survey, 2012:
Key findings and future directions
This ANROWS research project provides substantial additional analysis of data collected in the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) 2012 Personal Safety Survey (PSS).
Key findings and future directions
The PSS is the most comprehensive quantitative study of interpersonal violence in Australia. The survey is administered by the ABS and funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services. More than 17,000 women and men completed the 2012 survey.
The PSS is currently a largely untapped resource – even the publicly available PSS data has yet to be fully explored and applied to the most obviously relevant research and policy contexts. The analysis completed in this project provides several hundred new statistical items related to violence against women. Almost all the data is new – not only has this information not be readily available to the public before, but the datatables themselves have not been generated previously.
A Horizons report (in-depth research report) is also available as part of this project. Data tables by the ABS and ANROWS used in this report are also available as part of the Horizons report.
Publication details
ANROWS Compass (Research to policy and practice papers) are concise papers that summarise key findings of research on violence against women and their children, including research produced under ANROWS’s research program, and provide advice on the implications for policy and practice.
Authors
DR PETA COX
Senior Research Officer, ANROWS
ISSN: 2204-9622 (print) 2204-9630 (online)
5 pp.