Sharon G. Smith Content Topic Results

The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) provides critical state-level violence victimization prevalence data that are not available elsewhere. This sixth and final report using 2016/2017 data focuses on the lifetime experiences of victimization at national and state levels.

This report highlights findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) specific to sexual identity. This report fills gaps in research about the lifetime experiences of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence experienced by U.S. women and men separately by sexual identity.

The 2016/2017 report shows that intimate partner violence continues to be common, starts early, and disproportionately burdens historically marginalized individuals and communities. Overall, findings in the report underscore the need to prevent and address IPV against racial and ethnically marginalized communities. 

Sexual violence is a serious – yet preventable – public health problem. The 2016/2017 report on sexual violence includes updated data for women and men overall and by race and ethnicity and provides information on the types of perpetrators, age at first victimization, and associated health conditions among victims of sexual violence.

The survey instrument administered in 2016/2017 represents a change in data collection from previous years (2010–2012 and 2015). This report describes the methodology used for the 2016/2017 data collection and the limitations of the data.

This report summarizes the lifetime and 12-month experiences of stalking victims in the United States.

The primary purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive examination of the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) as a supplement to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS). The findings in this report offer additional information about specific IPV-related impacts, describing the wide range of experiences associated with IPV victimization.

This resource was developed to help states and communities take advantage of the best available evidence to prevent sexual violence.

This report describes the most recent data on the public health burden of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence victimization and the characteristics of victimization. Data in this report summarizes the second year of data collection from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS).

NISVS is an ongoing, nationally representative random digit dial telephone survey that collects information about experiences of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence among non-institutionalized English and/or Spanish-speaking women and men aged 18 or older in the United States. NISVS provides detailed information on the magnitude and characteristics of these forms of violence for the nation and for individual states.

This executive summary shares key findings from the 2010 NISVS report, which provides detailed information on the magnitude and characteristics of these forms of violence for the nation and for individual states.