Target 13

Measure

Proportion (%) of First Nations females aged 15 years and over who experienced domestic physical or threatened violence.

Data period

2018–19

Data source

ABS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) 2018-19, via the Productivity Commission website (PC 2023; ABS 2019).

Region types

Main structures: Australia, states and territories.

Suppression

• Data have been suppressed if the denominator for the percentage was less than 100, due to concerns about the reliability of percentages based on small denominators.


• Data have been flagged as use with caution if the margin of error was between 10% and 15%.


• Data have been suppressed if the margin of error was above 15%, or where a margin of error could not be reliably calculated.

Notes

• Data based on number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females aged 15 years and over who experienced physical harm and/or threatened face-to-face physical harm in the last 12 months where the perpetrator was a family member.


• NATSIHS data are for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were usual residents of private dwellings in Australia and were present at the survey interview.


• Geographical variables are based on the location of the household.


• ‘Physical harm’ refers to any incident where a person was physically hurt or harmed by someone on purpose, including physical fights. Other forms of abuse (for example: sexual, emotional, psychological) are not included.


• ‘Threatened physical harm’ refers to threats of physical harm that occurred face-to-face.


• ‘Family/domestic violence (physical or threatened harm)’ includes perpetrators who are a current partner, previous partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, date, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend, parent, child, sibling or other family member.