The survey also finds that 26 per cent of women and 15 per cent of men had experienced domestic abuse between the ages of 16 and 59.
Police recorded crime data suggests there has been a significant rise in domestic abuse over the past decade. In 2008/09, there were around 750,000 incidents recorded by the police, but by 2016/17 this has risen to just over one million incidents. There has been a year-on-year rise every year since 2007, however how data is collected was changed in 2015 making annual comparisons difficult. Despite this, there was a three per cent rise in reported incidents over the 12 months to March 2017.
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