The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) 2010 Summary Report presents the first year of NISVS data on the national prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV), sexual violence (SV), and stalking among women and men in the United States. The 2010 survey is the first year of the survey and provides baseline data that will be used to track IPV, SV, and stalking trends.


2010 Summary Key Findings
IPV, SV, and stalking are widespread in the United States. The findings in the 2010 survey underscore the pervasiveness of this violence, the immediate impacts of victimization, and the lifelong health consequences. Women are disproportionately impacted. They experienced high rates of severe IPV, rape, and stalking, and long-term chronic disease and other negative health impacts, such as post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
Women are disproportionately affected by IPV, SV, and stalking.
• Nearly 1 in 5 women (18%) and 1 in 71 men (1%) have been raped in their lifetime.
• Approximately 1.3 million women were raped during the year preceding the survey.
• One in 4 women have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner, while 1 in 7 men have experienced the same.
• One in 6 women (16%) have been stalked during their lifetime, compared to 1 in 19 men (5%).
IPV, SV, and stalking victims experience short- and long-term chronic disease and other health impacts.
• Eighty-one percent of women who experienced rape, stalking, or physical violence by an intimate partner reported significant short- or long-term impacts, such as post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and injury. Thirty-five percent of men report such impacts of their experiences.

• Women who experienced rape or stalking by any perpetrator or physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime were more likely than women who did not experience these forms of violence to report having asthma, diabetes, and irritable bowel syndrome.

• Men and women who experienced these forms of violence were more likely to report frequent headaches, chronic pain, difficulty with sleeping, activity limitations, poor physical health, and poor mental health than men and women who did not experience these forms of violence.