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Landscapes State of knowledge | December 2016 Invisible women, invisible violence: Understanding and improving data on the experiences of domestic and family violence and sexual assault for diverse groups of women: State of knowledge paper Issue DD01 | 2016 InvisibleJudicial educationwomen, invisible for domestic violence: and Understanding family violence and improving data on the experiences of domestic and family violence and sexual assault for diverse groups of women 01 ANROWS acknowledgement This material was produced with funding from the Australian Government and the Australian state and territory governments. Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) gratefully acknowledges the financial and other support it has received from these governments, without which this work would not have been possible. The findings and views reported in this paper are those of the authors and cannot be attributed to the Australian Government, or any Australian state or territory government. Acknowledgement of Country ANROWS acknowledges the traditional owners of the land across Australia on which we work and live. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander elders past, present and future; and we value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and knowledge. © ANROWS 2016 Published by Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety Limited (ANROWS) PO Box Q389, Queen Victoria Building, NSW, 1230 | www.anrows.org.au | Phone +61 2 8374 4000 ABN 67 162 349 171 Invisible women, invisible violence: Understanding and improving data on the experiences of domestic and family violence and sexual assault for diverse groups of women: State of knowledge paper / Trishima Mitra-Kahn, Carolyn Newbigin, Sophie Hardefeldt. Sydney : ANROWS, c2016. Pages ; 30 cm. (ANROWS Landscapes, Issue DD01/2016) I. Violence against women – Australia. II. Data collection. III. Women immigrants - Violence against - Australia. IV. Cultural diversity. I. Mitra-Kahn, Trishima. II. Newbigin, Carolyn. III. Hardefeldt, Sophie. 2204-9657 (print) 2204-9665 (online) 978-1-925372-50-2 (print) 978-1-925372-51-9 (online) Creative Commons Licence Attribution-Non Commercial CC BY-NC This licence lets others distribute, remix and build upon the work, but only if it is for non-commercial purposes and they credit the original creator/s (and any other nominated parties). They do not have to license their Derivative Works on the same terms. Version 3.0 (CC Australia ported licence): View CC BY-NC Australia Licence Deed | View CC BY-NC 3.0 Australia Legal Code Version 4.0 (international licence): View CC BY-NC 4.0 Licence Deed | View CC BY-NC 4.0 Legal Code Design Erin Snelgrove i ANROWS Landscapes | December 2016 Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) PO Box Q389, Queen Victoria Building, NSW, 1230 Invisible women, invisible violence: Understanding and improving data on the experiences of domestic and family violence and sexual assault for diverse groups of women: State of knowledge paper Prepared by Dr Trishima Mitra-Kahn, Research Manager, ANROWS Carolyn Newbigin, Senior Research Officer (Diversity Data), ANROWS Sophie Hardefeldt, Research Officer (Diversity Data), ANROWS Author acknowledgement The lead author wishes to thank the ANROWS team for their support, in particular Dr Peta Cox and Dr Mayet Costello for research feedback and Taryn Champion. The authors wish to thank the staff at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS), Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), VicHealth, the Department of Social Services (DSS), and staff within state and territory government agencies, for sharing their expertise, and for their ongoing support. We would also like to thank the community leaders, academic experts, and those in the prevention of violence against women sector for their valuable input into the project. We would like to thank Erica Potts and Lisette Aarons from the ABS; Kylie Dowse from the Port Macquarie Hastings Domestic and Family Violence Specialist Service; Roshan Bhandary and Rose Byrnes from InTouch, Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence; and Cristina Ricci from Women With Disabilities Australia for their expert feedback on the draft of this paper. We would also like to thank Dr Ruth McNair for her extensive input on available data for LGBTIQ people, to Dr Benjamin Hav Mitra-Kahn from IP Australia for his expert advice on data visualisation and data integration as well as to Liz Barrett for her policy expertise. Finally, our thanks go to the anonymous peer reviewers for their helpful feedback. Suggested citation Mitra-Kahn, T., Newbigin, C., & Hardefeldt, S. (2016). Invisible women, invisible violence: Understanding and improving data on the experiences of domestic and family violence and sexual assault for diverse groups of women: State of knowledge paper (ANROWS Landscapes, DD01/2016). Sydney: ANROWS. Invisible women, invisible violence: Understanding and improving data on the experiences of domestic and family violence and sexual assault for diverse groups of women ii ANROWS Landscapes | December 2016 This page has intentionally been left blank. Invisible women, invisible violence: Understanding and improving data on the experiences iii of domestic and family violence and sexual assault for diverse groups of women ANROWS Landscapes | December 2016 Contents Abbreviations 5 Symbols 5 Executive Summary 6 Scope of the paper 6 Methodological approach 6 Key findings 7 Key options for improvement 7 Terminology 8 Introduction 12 Project aims and research questions 13 Project scope 14 Project methodology 14 Approach to research landscape mapping 14 Approach to data landscape mapping 15 Approach to stakeholder consultations 16 Structure of the paper 17 Mapping the Australian research landscape 18 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women 19 Prevalence of domestic and family violence and sexual assault 19 The perpetration of domestic and family violence and sexual assault against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women 19 The nature of domestic and family violence and sexual assault against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women 20 Response behaviours 20 Culturally and linguistically diverse women 22 Prevalence of domestic and family violence and sexual assault 22 The perpetration of domestic and family violence and sexual assault against culturally and linguistically diverse women 22 The nature of domestic and family violence and sexual assault experienced by culturally and linguistically diverse women 23 Response behaviours 24 Women with disabilities 25 Prevalence of domestic and family violence and sexual assault 25 The perpetration of domestic and family violence and sexual assault against women with disabilities 26 The nature of domestic and family violence and sexual assault experienced by women with disabilities 26 Response behaviours 26 Additional diverse groups – review of selected literature 28 Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender/trans*, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) women 28 Women in prisons 30 Diversity within diversity - the intersections of disadvantage and marginalisation for diverse groups of women 31 Invisible women, invisible violence: Understanding and improving data on the experiences of domestic and family violence and sexual assault for diverse groups of women 1 ANROWS Landscapes | December 2016 Mapping the Australian data landscape 32 Overview of data landscape 33 Organising principles of data mapping 34 National surveys 38 The Personal Safety Survey (PSS) 38 Available information units 38 Key limitations 38 The National Community Attitudes towards Violence Against Women Survey (NCAS) 40 Available information units 40 Key limitations 40 The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS) 42 Available information units 42 Key limitations 42 International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS) (Australian component) 43 Available information units 43 Key limitations 43 Crime Victimisation survey 44 The Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers 44 Administrative data I – National collections 45 National criminal justice data collections and jurisdictional crime and policing data 45 Key limitations 46 National Coronial Information System (NCIS) 47 Available information units 47 Key limitations 47 National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) 48 Available information units 48 Specialist Homelessness Services Collection (SHSC) 49 Available information units 49 Key limitations 49 Child Protection National Minimum Data Set (CP NMDS) 50 Community Legal Services Information System (CLSIS) 50 Available information units 50 Key limitations 50 Hospital data 51 National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC) 51 National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NAPEDCD) 51 National Hospital Morbidity Database 52 Available information units in the NHMD 52 Key limitations of hospital data 52 Administrative data II 53 Domestic violence and sexual assault crisis services data 53 Key limitations 53 Health services domestic violence screening data 54 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community services, disability support services and culturally and linguistically diverse community services 55 Invisible women, invisible violence: Understanding and improving data on the experiences 2 of domestic and family violence and sexual assault for diverse groups of women ANROWS Landscapes | December 2016 Domestic violence death review data