4533.0 - Directory of Family and Domestic Violence Statistics, 2013  
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Purpose
Description
Definition of family and domestic violence
Relationship to Defining the data challenge for family, domestic and sexual violence (cat. no. 4529.0)
Family and domestic violence related content (data items collected)
Collection methodology
Scope / Target population
Coverage
Data availability / Dissemination
Publications
Collection history
Other directory data sources held by this agency

SURVEY OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIP SERVICE CLIENTS AUSTRALIA, 2009 (2013 provider updates not received)


DASHBOARD METADATA

Collection typeGeographic coverageFrequencyData availability
  • Survey
  • State/territory (all)
  • Once only
  • Detailed publication/report publicly available


DETAILED METADATA

Contact details

Data custodianAustralian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)
Contact Deputy Director (Research)
AddressLevel 20, South Tower, 485 La Trobe St, Melbourne, VIC, 3000
Telephone03 9214 7888
Facsimile 03 9214 7839
Emailhttps://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/contact.php
Internethttp://www.aifs.gov.au/
PURPOSE

To measure the extent of violence within Family Relationship Service Providers client population and client reports of response to violence.

DESCRIPTION

The survey sought to explore the extent to which the new and expanded services have contributed to the core policy objectives of the reforms and explored the following broad research questions:
  • Has attending the service helped clients to build strong, healthy relationships?
  • For those parents who have separated, has attending the service helped to encourage greater involvement by both parents in their children’s lives?
  • Has attending the service helped separating parents agree on parenting arrangements for their children?
  • How easy or difficult was it to access the service (including referral pathways)?


DEFINITION OF FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Family and Domestic Violence is defined in this survey by the following question:
“Before you went to the [service] did [your current partner/ex-partner/the family member you went to the [service] about/ your grandchild’s/ grandchildren’s parents] ever:
  • try to control you by either preventing you from contacting friends and family or preventing you from using a car or having knowledge about or access to family money;
  • threaten to harm you, themselves or others (including pets);
  • seriously put you down or insult you; or
  • physically hurt you.”

Family and domestic violence is also operationally defined by clients of Specialised Family Violence Services as these Services provide counselling and support for families who are experiencing, or are at risk of, violence.

Aspects of family and domestic violence captured by the data are:
  • physical abuse;
  • psychological /emotional abuse;
  • verbal abuse;
  • economic abuse;
  • social abuse; and
  • property damage.

RELATIONSHIP TO DEFINING THE DATA CHALLENGE FOR FAMILY, DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE (cat. no. 4529.0)

The summary table below is designed to indicate the amount of information available for each of the six elements outlined in Defining the Data Challenge for Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence, 2013 (cat. no. 4529.0).This is a subjective assessment made by the ABS about the data collected and is not an indication of data quality.

Conceptual Framework
Amount of Information Available
Element/Sub–element
Some
Detailed
Context
Environmental factors
Psycho-social factors
Risk
Community prevalence
Community incidence
Incident/event
Responses
Formal responses
Informal responses
Impacts/Outcomes
Programs, Research & Evaluation
FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RELATED CONTENT (data items collected)

The following tables provide a detailed analysis of the availability of specified data elements in the data source. The data items have been grouped into four counting units:
1. Context;
2. Person;
3. Incident/Event; and
4. Transaction.

Tables are absent from the entry in cases where the data source contains no data items which relate to the particular counting unit/s.

Context
Please note: This data source does not contain any data items relevant to this counting unit.
Person

Data Items
Respondent
(Victim)1
Perpetrator 1
Secondary
(Victim)1
Residential location
Age
Sex
Indigenous status
Disability status
Country of birth
Language spoken
Employment status
Education
Income
Socio-economic status
Mental illness
Other
[1] Respondent is the person who used the Family Relationship Service and may or may not have experienced family and domestic violence.Incident/event

Data Items
Available
Location of incident/event
Residential location
Workplace
Educational institution
Public Place
Other Location
Relationship between parties
Current partner
Previous partner
Boyfriend/girlfriend/date
Parent
Child
Sibling
Other relatives
Other member of household
Personal/financial dependency
Other
Other Characteristics
Weapon used
Type of weapon
Physical Injury sustained
Type of injury sustained
Pregnancy
Alcohol/substance use
Prior history of victimisation/offending
Change to routine
Time off work/economic costs
Perceptions of behaviour as criminal
Other
Transaction

Data Items
Available
Detection
Reported to police
Reasons not reported to police
Satisfaction with police response
Application for violence order
Violence order issued
Offender charged
Offender went to court
Offender sentence type
Child protection involvement
Other
Formal support
Services used/ referral to services
1
Medical treatment/type
Counselling
Legal
Financial
Housing/accommodation
Crisis
Other (family relationship service; outcomes of family dispute resolution)
Informal Support
Family/friends
Minister/priest
Telephone service
Other
[1] Service type person is responding about only. COLLECTION METHODOLOGY

The Survey of Family Relationship Service Provider Clients 2009 was undertaken during September and October 2009. Clients who had attended services between January 2008 and April 2009 and had agreed to be contacted by the service provider for research purposes were invited to complete the survey online or via a telephone interview. 17.6% of respondents were interviewed by telephone.
Respondents were selected using a s
tratified random sample within most service types, but clients who attended more than 1 service type were sampled into the service they attended that had the smallest number of clients.
SCOPE/TARGET POPULATION

Family Relationship Service Program Clients attending Services from January 2008 to April 2009 who agreed to be recontacted by their services for research purposes.

COVERAGE

Clients had to have consented to be contacted. Service providers excluded clients where there were safety concerns.

DATA AVAILABILITY / DISSEMINATION

Data are reported in the report Evaluation of the 2006 Family Law Reforms.

PUBLICATIONS

Evaluation of the 2006 Law Reforms

COLLECTION HISTORY

Collection commenced: 2009

Break in series: No

Other details: N/a
OTHER DIRECTORY DATA SOURCES HELD BY THIS AGENCY

Australian Temperament Project (ATP)
Evaluation of the 2006 Family Law Reforms Legislation and Courts Project, Australia
Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC)
Longitudinal Study of Separated Families (LSSF)