Intimate Partner Violence: Data Sources

CDC Data Sources

• National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)
  NISVS is an ongoing survey that collects the most current and comprehensive national-and state-level data on intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking victimization in the United States.
  • National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey— State Report 2010-2012 [4.32 MB, 272 Pages, 508]
  • Prevalence and Characteristics of Sexual Violence, Stalking, and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization—National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, United States, 2011
• National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)
  CDC funds NVDRS in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to gather, share, and link state-level data on violent deaths. NVDRS provides CDC and states with a more complete understanding of violent deaths. This enables policy makers and community leaders to make informed decisions about violence prevention programs, including those that address intimate partner violence.
• The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
  NSFG gathers information on family life, marriage and divorce, pregnancy, infertility, use of contraception, and men’s and women’s health. The survey results are used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and others to plan health services and health education programs, and to do statistical studies of families, fertility, and health.
• Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
  PRAMS collects state-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy. Data on physical abuse by an intimate partner during and after pregnancy are collected..
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
  CDC’s YRBSS monitors health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability, including intimate partner violence (in the form of sexual and physical teen dating violence), among young people in the United States.

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Other Federal Data Sources

• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
  Each year, the FBI publishes a summary of Crime in the United States, Hate Crime Statistics, special studies, reports, and monographs..
• National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
  NCVS is the primary source of information on criminal victimization in the United States. The survey enables the Bureau of Justice Statistics to estimate the likelihood of victimization by rape, sexual assault, robbery, assault, theft, household burglary, intimate partner violence victimization, and motor vehicle theft.

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Non-Federal Data Sources

• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
  Add Health is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-95 school year. The cohort was most recently interviewed in 2008 when the sample was aged 24-32. Add Health is re-interviewing cohort members in a Wave V follow-up from 2016-2018 to collect social, environmental, behavioral, and biological data with which to track the emergence of chronic disease as the cohort moves through their fourth decade of life.

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