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MEASURING INCIDENT - EXPERIENCE

Potential units for analysis
In answering questions about the incident, information may be sourced from administrative records or surveys about the following counting units:

• people - victims/perpetrators experience of family, domestic and sexual violence;
• behaviours - in relation to incidents of family, domestic and sexual violence; and
• characteristics of family, domestic and sexual violence incidents.

• What is the nature of family, domestic and sexual violence in Australia? What are the characteristics of incidents of family, domestic and sexual violence?
• What are the characteristics of victims of family, domestic or sexual violence? What are their experiences and their perceptions of family, domestic or sexual violence?
• What are the characteristics of perpetrators of family, domestic or sexual violence? What are their experiences and their perceptions of family, domestic or sexual violence?
• Are some population groups and age groups over-represented in incidents of family, domestic and sexual violence (as victims or as perpetrators)?
• In what circumstances does family, domestic or sexual violence occur?
• Are these changing over time? In what way?
• Are there any common trigger events? If so what are they, and in what proportion of cases are they a factor?
• Is there a common trajectory with family, domestic and sexual violence incidents; do they tend to escalate over time or do behaviours remain relatively stable?
• Do some victims respond to a period of abuse with violence, thereby becoming a perpetrator themselves?
• What proportion of family, domestic or sexual violence incidents involve secondary victims, e.g. children as witnesses?
• What is known about incidents involving parents and children? Is there a correlation between these incidents, and those in which children are witnesses to abuse between parents?