"Figure 1: Prevalence of domestic abuse in the last year for adults aged 16 to 59 years","" "England and Wales, year ending March 2005 to year ending March 2018 ","" "","" "Notes","1. The intimate violence section of chapter 5 of the [User Guide](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/methodologies/crimeandjusticemethodology) provides definitions of the various types of domestic abuse. 2. No data point is available for the year ending March 2008 because comparable questions on stalking, an offence that makes up the domestic abuse category, were not included in that year. " "Unit","Percentage of victims once or more" "","" "","Any domestic abuse ","Any partner abuse ","Any family abuse " "Mar 05","8.9","6.9","3.4" "Mar 06","9.0","7.1","3.4" "Mar 07","8.8","6.9","3.5" "Mar 08","","","" "Mar 09","6.5","4.9","2.7" "Mar 10","6.6","5.2","2.5" "Mar 11","6.9","5.5","2.6" "Mar 12","7.0","5.2","2.7" "Mar 13","6.6","4.9","2.5" "Mar 14","6.5","4.9","2.2" "Mar 15","6.1","4.6","2.1" "Mar 16","6.1","4.6","2.1" "Mar 17","5.9","4.5","1.8" "Mar 18","6.1","4.5","2.2"