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Violence against women and children affects everybody. It impacts on the health, wellbeing and safety of a significant proportion of Australians throughout all states and territories and places an enormous burden on the nation’s economy across family and community services, health and hospitals, income-support and criminal justice systems.

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RESEARCH REPORT

Attitudes matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS), Findings for Australian states and territories

This report provides a jurisdictional analysis of the results from the 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS).

The National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS) is a periodic, representative survey of the Australian population that is conducted every four years. The NCAS measures the Australian community’s understanding and attitudes regarding violence against women, their attitudes towards gender inequality and their intentions to intervene when witnessing violence or disrespect against women. The NCAS functions as a gauge for Australia’s progress toward changing the broader climate that facilitates and maintains violence against women.

Attitudes Matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS), Findings for Australian States and Territories:

  • benchmarks, as at 2021, each jurisdiction’s understanding and attitudes regarding violence against women, attitudes towards gender inequality and intention to intervene when witnessing abuse or disrespect of women
  • compares each jurisdiction’s understanding and attitudes in 2021 to Australia as a whole
  • determines if each jurisdiction’s understanding and attitudes have improved since the 2017 NCAS.

 

 

Publication details

This work is part of the National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS) suite of resources.

 


Authors

PROJECT LEAD

DR CHRISTINE COUMARELOS
Director, Research Program (NCAS), ANROWS

RESEARCH TEAM

DR NATALIE ROBERTS
Senior Research Officer (NCAS), ANROWS

DR NICOLE WEEKS
Manager (NCAS), ANROWS

DR SHIREEN BERNSTEIN
Senior Research Officer (NCAS), ANROWS

DR NIKKI HONEY 
Executive Director, Quantitative Research Consulting, Social Research Centre

RESEARCH PARTNERS

SOCIAL RESEARCH CENTRE 
Data collection and analysis was conducted by the Social Research Centre in collaboration with ANROWS.


ISBN: 978-1-922645-72-2 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-922645-73-9 (PDF)


Suggested citation

Coumarelos, C., Roberts, N., Weeks, N., Bernstein, S., & Honey, N. (2023). Attitudes matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS), Findings for Australian states and territories (Research report, 05/2023). ANROWS.

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