FACT SHEET Three times more likely: Findings from the Personal Safety Survey and the National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey
This resource will be useful to Australian policymakers and practitioners seeking to highlight the dissonance between what we believe about violence and its actual prevalence.
This resource places prevalence data from the 2021–22 Personal Safety Survey (PSS) and data relating to attitudes and understanding of violence against women from the 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS) side by side. In doing so it illustrates the way that our beliefs feed into myths, misconceptions, distrust and disbelief of women’s reports of violence, and stand in the way of ending violence against women.
This resource includes a series of infographics (also provided separately on the NCAS microsite for ease of sharing) that cover:
- Intimate partner violence
- Emotional abuse
- Sexual violence
- The stranger rape myth
- Sexual harassment
- Stalking.
This resource gives policymakers and practitioners practical ways to highlight the dissonance between what Australians believe about violence and its actual prevalence. It translates findings from two key population surveys, Personal Safety, Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2023) and Attitudes matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS), Findings for Australia (ANROWS, 2023).
Suggested citation
Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2023). Three times more likely: Findings from the Personal Safety Survey and the National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey [Fact sheet]. ANROWS.