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.