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Table 1 Frequency (Percentage) and average number of victimizations since age 14 years among 899 first-year university women

From: Sexual violence in the lives of first-year university women in Canada: no improvements in the 21st century

Form of victimization

Frequency (%*)

95% CI

Average number of victimizations†

95% CI

Any form of victimization

528 (58.7)

(55.4, 62.0)

4.8

(4.4, 5.3)

Completed or attempted rape

315 (35.0)

(31.9, 38.3)

3.0

(2.7, 3.3)

Completed rape

211 (23.5)

(20.7, 26.4)

2.2

(2.0, 2.5)

Attempted rape

246 (27.4)

(24.5, 30.4)

2.4

(2.2, 2.7)

Coercion

200 (22.2)

(19.6, 25.1)

2.5

(2.2, 2.8)

Attempted coercion

274 (30.5)

(27.5, 33.6)

2.7

(2.5, 3.0)

Sexual contact

454 (50.5)

(47.2, 53.8)

2.3

(2.1, 2.4)

  1. CI = Confidence interval.
  2. *Percentages do not add to 100 because women may have had multiple forms of victimization.
  3. †Geometric mean among women who were victimized one or more times since the age of 14 years; sample size is the frequency in the second column.