CDC releases National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence: 2010 Summary Report

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010 Summary Report. The report finds sexual violence, stalking and intimate partner violence are widespread in the United States.

 The National intimate partner and sexual violence survey is one of the CDC’s newest public health surveillance systems, designed to better describe and monitor the magnitude of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence victimization in the United States. It is the first survey of its kind to provide simultaneous national and state-level prevalence estimates of violence for all states. The findings in this report underscore the importance of prevention efforts. NISVS provides data that can help inform policies and programs aimed at the specific needs of state and national organizations and also a way to monitor and measure these efforts.

 Click here for links to the executive summary and the full report

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