Male: % of rape/sexual assault victimizations, 2021-2024
80.5
% of rape or sexual assault victimizations in which the victim described the offender as male, Interviews from 2021-2024 pooled
Moderate trust, 63 of 100 Only one source (BJS NCVS), so it cannot be checked against another.
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| Year | BJS National Crime Victimization Survey, NCVS Select - Personal Victimization (legacy instrument) |
|---|---|
| 1996 | 95.7 |
| 2000 | 93.2 |
| 2004 | 91.6 |
| 2008 | 87.7 |
| 2012 | 85 |
| 2016 | 89.9 |
| 2020 | 89.4 |
| 2024 | 80.5 |
What this number counts
- Counts
- Share of rape or sexual assault victimizations (completed, attempted and threatened) in which the victim described the offender as male, out of all such victimizations including unknown answers
- Where
- United States, persons age 12 or older living in households
- When
- Interviews from 2021-2024 pooled (4 years); the series pools 4-year periods from 1993 and plots each at its last year. Crimes are counted in the year of the interview. (periods differ by source; see each source)
Where the number comes from (1 source)
| Source | Figure and year | Definition | Quality | Counts for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
BJS National Crime Victimization Survey, NCVS Select - Personal Victimization (legacy instrument)Bureau of Justice Statistics (U.S. Department of Justice) · Victim surveyRetrieved 2026-10-27 · Data (CSV file) | 80.52024 | NCVS Select victimization records with newoff = 1 (rape/sexual assault), offendersex = 1 ("Male" in the codebook), weighted with newwgt, the series-adjusted victimization weight, which counts a series of similar crimes as the number the victim reported, up to 10, as in BJS reports.Each victim of an incident counts once; BJS's own offender tables use incident weights and leave unknown answers out, so they differ from these shares. About 381,790 victimizations a year in 2021-2024, from 469 sample records. Every period has more than 10 sample records for this group; BJS also flags estimates whose coefficient of variation exceeds 50%, which is not computed here. | 4 of 5 checks
| 100% |
- BJS NCVS100%
How the trust score was worked out
- Quality32 / 40
How well the sources are made
- Agreement15 / 30
Unknown with one source, so set to half
- Independence6 / 20
How many separate ways the number was measured
- Freshness10 / 10
How recent the newest data is
Who reports it, and since when
No source of these kinds: police and justice records.
- Single source: nothing to check it against
- BJS NCVS, 2006: BJS found "a break in series between 2006 and previous years" at the national level, mainly from a new sample based on the 2000 Census, the use of first-time interviews, and computer-assisted interviewing from July 2006 (Criminal Victimization, 2006, p. 1). source
- BJS NCVS, 2016: The sample grew by 41% and was moved to the 2010 Census base; BJS issued a revised 2016 file so that 2016 can be compared with other years (Criminal Victimization, 2016: Revised). source
- BJS NCVS, 2024: About half of 2024 households got the redesigned questionnaire; the 2024 data here come from the legacy half-sample only, which BJS says gives more variation and higher standard errors. source
- BJS NCVS, 2025: BJS moved fully to the redesigned NCVS-R in January 2025 and says its estimates are not comparable with the legacy survey, so this series ends in 2024. source
- BJS NCVS: no figure here for 21 years between 1996 and 2024
figure no figure here, inside its range no later figure recorded change