CANBERRA, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Women were two and half times more likely than men to experience violence by a partner, according to the Gender Indicators report released on Tuesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
ABS Director of Living Conditions, Caroline Daley, said that 1. 5 percent of women, or 133,000, aged 18 years and over had experienced violence by a partner in 2012 compared to 0.6 percent of men, or 52,000.
Women were also more than twice as likely as men to have experienced sexual violence - 1.2 percent, or 102,000, of women compared to 0.5 percent, or 41,000, of men, according to the ABS.
The new data shows a decrease in the proportion of men who had experienced violence from 11 percent of men in 2005 to nine percent in 2012. But it signals no statistically significant change for women from six percent of women in 2005 to five percent in 2012.
"While the number of men experiencing physical violence in 2012 has declined by around 18 percent since 2005, men remain nearly twice as likely as women to experience physical violence," Daley said.
Of the 1.2 million Australians aged 18 years and over in 2012 who had experienced some form of violence, two thirds were men, or 737,000, and one third were women, or 467,000.
The Gender Indicators publication also looked at caretaker responsibilities and found that twice as many women as men were providing primary care to a person with a disability. However, women with a job were more likely to manage their caring responsibilities through part-time work than men.
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