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GLOSSARY
Malicious property damage
Intentional or wilful (not accidental) damage, defacement or destruction of any part of the respondent's home or anything usually kept at the home. Excludes any rental, investment or holiday properties owned by a member of the household. Property is something tangible in nature, including land, conveyances, animals or other objects capable of being privately owned. Destruction can mean any alteration that may render something imperfect or inoperative. It can include destruction of property, graffiti or vandalism, partial destruction, killing or harming an owned animal and removing or destroying a plant or other part of an owned landscape. Excludes acts such as turning off water meters and flicking safety switches if no damage to the meter occurred.
Physical assault
An act of physical force or violence by the offender/s against the victim. Examples of physical force or violence include being beaten, pushed, grabbed, shoved, slapped, hit with an open hand or fist, kicked, bitten, choked, stabbed, shot, burnt, being hit with something such as a bat or being dragged or hit deliberately by a vehicle. Includes assault which may happen in the line of work. Excludes incidents that occurred during the course of play on a sporting field or organised sport, verbal abuse, incidents where the person did not encounter the offender face-to-face and incidents of sexual assault or threatened sexual assault which also involved physical assault.
Reporting rate
The total number of victims who reported the most recent incident they experienced of that type of crime to police expressed as a percentage of victims. Includes incidents where the victim did not report the incident themselves, but were aware of another person that did.
Statistical Significance
A statistical significance test for a comparison between estimates is performed to determine whether it is likely that there is a statistically significant (or real) difference between the corresponding population characteristics. If the value of the test statistic is greater than 1.96 then there is a evidence, with a 95% level of confidence, of a statististically significant difference in the two populations with respect to that characteristic. Otherwise, it cannot be stated with confidence that there is a real difference between the populations with respect to that characteristic.
Victim
A victim is a person or household who has experienced as least one incident of a selected type of crime within the last 12 months. A victim may experience more than one incident of a type of crime, but is only counted once for each crime experienced.
Victimisation rate
The total number of victims of a crime in a given population expressed as a percentage of that population.
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