Statistics & Information

Rape and Sexual Assault

**Reporting Trends**
Findings	Source	Method
91% of women who were assaulted told no-one of their experience	Painter, 1991	Survey of 1,007 women in 11 cities, Northern England
Only 6% of sexual assaults are reported to the police	Statistics Canada, 1993a	Telephone survey of a random sample of 12,300 women (the largest survey of its kind worldwide)
50% of women did not report their experience because they believed that the police could not do anything about it	Statistics Canada, 1993a	Telephone survey (as above)
None of those who had been raped reported to the police or other formal agencies, though 1 in 3 told a family member or friend	Coker-Appiah & Cusack,1999	The Ghana National Study on Violence 1998, survey of 2,069 women and girls suplemented by a five-year review of official records.
Only 1 in 10 (8%) of women reported sexual violence to the police	Lundgren, Heimer, Westerstrand & Kalliokoski (2002)	Swedish Study of men's violence against women (1999-2000) national postal survey of 6,926 women.
Less than 1 in 10 (8%) of women subjected to sexual violence reported the most recent violent incident to the police	Lundgren, Heimer, Westerstrand & Kalliokoski (2002)	Swedish Study of men's violence against women (1999-2000) (as above)
The propensity to make a report to police is low (9-13%) across all types of relationship with the perpetrator	Lundgren, Heimer, Westerstrand & Kalliokoski (2002)	Swedish Study of men's violence against women (1999-2000) (as above)