AWARENESS OF SECURITY WHEN AT HOME (Table 35)

Just under one third of Australians (30% or 5.8 million) reported being more aware of their security when at home compared to 12 months earlier. For the purpose of this survey, aware of security means having a general awareness of the environment and potential threats to personal safety.

AWARENESS OF SECURITY WHEN AT HOME BY SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS

A greater proportion of persons in the following groups reported being more aware of their security when at home compared to 12 months earlier:

• women (32%) compared to men (28%)
• persons who live outside of capital cities (31%) compared to persons who live in capital cities (29%).

Persons in the highest quintile of the Index of Relative Socio-Economic Advantage and Disadvantage (26%) were less likely to have increased their security awareness compared to persons in all other quintiles and the national average (30%).^{Endnote 1}

AWARENESS OF SECURITY WHEN AT HOME BY EXPERIENCE OF SELECTED CRIME TYPES (Table 36)

This section explores whether a person is more aware of their security when at home, compared to 12 months earlier, by experiences of selected personal and household crimes in the last 12 months. These results do not necessarily imply a causal relationship, as the survey does not identify whether the change in awareness of security is a result of experiencing crime or other influences not captured by the survey. Caution should be used when interpreting these data.

Persons who lived in a household that experienced at least one selected household crime during the 2017–18 reference period, were more likely to have increased their awareness of security when at home (53%) than persons who lived in a household that had not experienced any of the selected household crimes (27%).

PERSONS AGED 15 YEARS AND OVER, More aware of security when at home compared to 12 months earlier, by experience of selected household crimes(a), 2017–18

Footnote(s): (a) The survey does not identify whether the change in awareness of security is a result of experiencing crime, as such caution should be used when interpreting these data. (b) The total cannot be calculated from the components, where a person lives in a household that has experienced more than one crime type, they are counted separately for each crime type but are only counted once in the aggregated total.

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Persons who experienced at least one selected personal crime in the 2017–18 reference period were more likely to have increased their awareness of security when at home (47%) than persons who did not experience any selected personal crimes (29%).

PERSONS AGED 15 YEARS AND OVER, More aware of security when at home compared to 12 months earlier, by experience of selected personal crimes(a), 2017–18

Footnote(s): (a) The survey does not identify whether the change in awareness of security is a result of experiencing crime, as such caution should be used when interpreting these data. (b) Includes physical assault, face-to-face threatened assault, non face-to-face threatened assault and robbery for persons aged 15 years and over and sexual assault for persons aged 18 years and over only.(c) The total cannot be calculated from the components, where a person has experienced more than one crime type, they are counted separately for each crime type but are only counted once in the aggregated total.

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© Commonwealth of Australia 2019.

ENDNOTES

Endnote 1 The Index of Relative Socio-Economic Advantage and Disadvantage ranks areas on a continuum from most disadvantaged to most advantaged. Lower quintiles indicate greater levels of disadvantage and a lack of advantage in general compared to higher quintiles. For further information, see Explanatory Notes.