Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men: 2010 Findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)

This study examines the prevalence of violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and men, using a large nationally representative sample from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS). More specifically, it provides estimates of sexual violence, physical violence by intimate partners, stalking, and psychological aggression by intimate partners. It also provides estimates of interracial and intraracial victimizations and briefly examines the impact of violence. This study is based on two of the NISVS samples that were included in the 2010 data collection effort --the general population sample and the American Indian and Alaska Native oversample. This American Indian and Alaska Native oversample was collected from geographical areas (telephone exchanges) where at least 50% of the population identifies themselves as American Indian or Alaska Native. To increase the generalizability of the American Indian and Alaska Native sample (and to add interviews conducted by cell phone), a new "combined" sample was created by including (a) all respondents in the American Indian and Alaska Native oversample and (b) 677 respondents in the general population sample who identified themselves as American Indian or Alaska Native. By combining these samples, a new sample was obtained that is large enough to produce reliable and valid estimates for all women and men in the United States who identify themselves as American Indian or Alaska Native. For a more exact discussion of the sample, see the NIJ Technical Report. The combined sample includes 2,473 women and 1,505 men who identified themselves as American Indian or Alaska Native. Results from the combined American Indian and Alaska Native sample were compared to results from the sample of respondents in the general population sample who identified themselves as non-Hispanic White alone. The comparison sample includes 7,646 women and 6,050 men who identified themselves as non-Hispanic White alone. There are 5 data files included with this study. Dataset 1 (General Population Raw Data) contains 18,957 cases and 26,114 variables. Dataset 2 (American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Oversample Raw Data) contains 3,612 cases and 22,932 variables. Dataset 3 (Respondent-level Data) contains 21,378 cases and 493 variables. Dataset 4 (Perpetrator-level Data) contains 51,535 cases and 446 variables. Dataset 5 (Weights File) contains 3,978 cases and 9 variables.

本研究依托全美亲密伴侣与性暴力调查（National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, NISVS）的大型全国代表性样本，考察针对美国印第安人与阿拉斯加原住民男女的暴力行为发生率。具体而言，本研究估算了性暴力、亲密伴侣肢体暴力、跟踪骚扰以及亲密伴侣心理攻击的发生情况，同时提供了跨种族与同种族受害事件的估算结果，并简要探讨了暴力行为的影响。

本研究使用了2010年数据收集工作中纳入的两组NISVS样本——普通人群样本与美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民过采样样本（American Indian and Alaska Native oversample）。该原住民过采样样本采集自至少50%人口自视为美国印第安人或阿拉斯加原住民的电话交换局覆盖地理区域。为提升该原住民样本的外推性（并补充手机访谈的样本），研究构建了全新的“合并样本”：纳入（a）全部美国印第安人与阿拉斯加原住民过采样受访者，以及（b）普通人群样本中自视为美国印第安人或阿拉斯加原住民的677名受访者。通过合并上述样本，研究获得了足够大的样本量，可对美国境内所有自视为美国印第安人或阿拉斯加原住民的男女生成可靠且有效的估算结果。关于样本的更精准讨论，请参阅美国国家司法研究所（National Institute of Justice, NIJ）技术报告。

该合并样本包含2473名自视为美国印第安人与阿拉斯加原住民的女性与1505名男性。研究将合并后的原住民样本结果，与普通人群样本中自视为非西班牙裔白人（仅白人）的受访者样本结果进行了对比。该对比样本包含7646名非西班牙裔白人女性与6050名非西班牙裔白人男性。

本研究共包含5个数据文件：数据集1（普通人群原始数据）包含18957条记录与26114个变量；数据集2（美国印第安人与阿拉斯加原住民（American Indian and Alaska Native, AIAN）过采样原始数据）包含3612条记录与22932个变量；数据集3（受访者层面数据）包含21378条记录与493个变量；数据集4（施害者层面数据）包含51535条记录与446个变量；数据集5（权重文件）包含3978条记录与9个变量。