The extent of violence inflicted on adolescent Aboriginal girls in the Northern Territory

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Perpetrators of assault: proportion of assault hospitalizations by category of perpetrator, NT 2011-2016

	Aboriginal						non-Aboriginal ^a
	Male			Female			Male	Female
	0-9	10-13	14-17	0-9	10-13	14-17	14-17	14-17
Number of assault hospitalizations (n)	83	34	120	77	52	241	29	11
Number with perpetrator recorded (n)	73	27	79	66	37	195	9	9
Proportion by perpetrator (%) ^b
Spouse or domestic partner	0.0	0.0	7.6	1.5^d	16.2	39.5	0.0	44.4
Parent or carer	74.0	22.2	3.8	71.2	10.8	7.2	0.0	11.1
Other family member	16.4	22.2	41.8	19.7	40.5	28.7	0.0	0.0
Non-family ^c	9.6	55.6	46.8	7.6	32.4	24.6	100.0	44.4

^a data is not presented for non-Aboriginal children aged 0-13 years because there were only 13 assault hospitalizations
^b proportion of hospitalizations with perpetrator recorded
^c friend, acquaintance, other specified, official authorities or unknown person(s)
^d one female aged 0-9 years had the perpetrator recorded as a ‘spouse or domestic partner’; it is not known whether this was a data entry error

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