Campus sexual violence rate closer to 1%, not 25%, study suggests

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'A new study found the campus sexual violence rate is around one percent, which differs from the oft-cited claim that 1 in 5 women are victims of sexual assault or violence while in college.

Researchers with Washington State University “analyzed data from 2007 through 2022 from 61,869 women surveyed for the nationally representative National Crime Victimization Survey,” according to a paper in the Journal of American College Health.

The “6-month sexual violence victimization prevalence” for college students was .46 percent for both on-campus and commuter students. “Over that same period, among college-students, the 6-month rate for on-campus residents,” worked out to about one percent, the authors wrote.'