Prevention of Family Violence Data Platform

The Prevention of Family Violence Data Platform was developed:

in partnership with the Victorian Crime Statistics Agency (CSA)
and in response to Recommendation 143 of the Royal Commission into Family Violence.

The Data Platform supports the state's progress towards its goal of preventing family violence and all forms of violence against women. It draws from over 35 existing valid data sources on the prevalence of violence and community attitudes towards gender inequality, and other markers of discrimination.

The Data Platform is hosted on the Victorian Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) website.

Prevention of Family Violence Data Platform

The purpose of the Prevention of Family Violence Data Platform

The Data Platform is designed to:

enable monitoring of long-term, population-level progress towards the primary prevention of family violence and all forms of violence against women in Victoria
improve targeting of programs through measurement and analysis of the drivers of violence
guide and support the prioritisation of primary prevention policy, program design and investment in Victoria
drive the consolidation, expansion, and uptake of the quantitative evidence-base and enable the identification of key data gaps to highlight opportunities for future investment in data collection.

Data has been collected since 2009, with new data sets and currently presented data sources to be updated as it becomes available.

Achieving long-term change

Preventing family violence and all forms of violence against women requires long-term investment. While some Data Platform indicators are more likely to demonstrate change sooner than others, they may not show marked positive change in the drivers and prevalence of family violence and all forms of violence against women in Victoria for some time.

Significant and sustained reductions in the prevalence of violence requires:

long-term, sustained policy investment
effective, evidence-based prevention efforts
continued investment in intervention and response.

Who is the Platform for?

The Data Platform is designed for:

Victorian Government decision-makers – for primary prevention monitoring, reporting, policy and program planning, strategic investment planning, and data investment planning
the primary prevention sector – to help inform primary prevention program development
researchers and data custodians – to help identify and address gaps in the primary prevention evidence base the public
the media and others – to explore data on the prevention of family violence and violence against women in Victoria.