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Family and domestic violence hospitalisations by relationship to perpetrator, Australia

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Publisher Australian Institute of Health and WelfareUpdated yearlyLicence CC BY 4.0Latest 2026-08-06Rows 256Fields 6

Table NHMD 1 of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Family, domestic and sexual violence data tables, family and domestic violence hospitalisations by relationship to perpetrator and age group, one row per year, age group, sex, perpetrator relationship and unit, compiled from the National Hospital Morbidity Database.

Also called: FDV hospitalisations, Domestic violence injury hospitalisations, AIHW FDSV data tables NHMD 1, Assault hospitalisations by perpetrator.

Before you use it
What is counted?
Hospital admissions for assault injuries where the perpetrator was recorded as a spouse or domestic partner, a parent or another family member, by financial year from 2020-21, age group and sex, as the number of hospitalisations and the rate per 100,000 people, compiled by the Institute from the National Hospital Morbidity Database. The Institute writes n.p. where a figure is not published.
Where is this table from?
The Institute's Family, domestic and sexual violence data tables workbook, which gathers tables from several national collections. This dataset is one sheet of it. The data in this sheet is compiled by the Institute from a government source it names, and the ABS and AIC publish their own material under CC BY 4.0 as well.
Why does the attribution say "based on" AIHW material?
The Institute publishes its data tables under CC BY 4.0 and asks that material adapted from them, which republishing in other formats is, carry the words "Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material". Every file here carries them. The Institute has not endorsed this site.

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Any agent that connects to publicdata.au/mcp can find this dataset, read its 6 fields, count and filter across all 256 rows and diff its versions. Every answer names the version and carries AIHW's attribution. No key.

Then ask it: What does Family and domestic violence hospitalisations by relationship to perpetrator, Australia hold, and what changed in the newest version?

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

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Download it as Excel, CSV, JSON and 6 more formats

Pick a format and a version. Excel is picked first because it opens in the tools most offices have. The URL is yours to keep. A dated version never changes.

Format
"Latest" redirects to the newest version and will change when the publisher releases again. A dated version never changes.
https://publicdata.au/d/au-fdv-hospitalisations/latest/data.xlsx
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The dated URL in the code never changes. https://publicdata.au/d/au-fdv-hospitalisations/latest/ redirects to the newest version.

https://publicdata.au/d/au-fdv-hospitalisations/latest/data.csv

In Excel choose Data, then From Web, and paste this address. Excel keeps it, so Refresh All reads the newest version. A sheet holds about a million rows; past that, load the query to the Data Model.

What is in it

Column names are made snake_case and the publisher's original header is kept beside each one. Blank cells are null. Nothing is added, removed, ranked or summarised.

FieldTypePublisher's headerNote
yearstringYearThe financial year, such as 2024–25.
age_groupstringAge group
sexstringSex
perpetrator_relationshipstringPerpetrator's relationship to victim
unitstringUnit
valuenumberValue
suppressedarrayNames of the fields the publisher suppressed in this row. The cells are null.

Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json.

A sample of 10 rows

The hospitalisation counts for all ages in the newest year, for each sex and relationship to the perpetrator. A blank cell is shown as null.

yearage_groupsexperpetrator_relationshipunitvalue
2024–25All agesFemaleAll FDV perpetratorsNumber7287
2024–25All agesMaleAll FDV perpetratorsNumber2232
2024–25All agesPersonsAll FDV perpetratorsNumber9528
2024–25All agesFemaleOther family memberNumber1729
2024–25All agesMaleOther family memberNumber1249
2024–25All agesPersonsOther family memberNumber2980
2024–25All agesFemaleParentNumber420
2024–25All agesFemaleSpouse or domestic partnerNumber5176
2024–25All agesMaleParentNumber328
2024–25All agesMaleSpouse or domestic partnerNumber663
The first row as JSON

As it appears in data.json.

GET https://publicdata.au/d/au-fdv-hospitalisations/latest/data.json
{
  "year": "2020–21",
  "age_group": "All ages",
  "sex": "Female",
  "perpetrator_relationship": "All FDV perpetrators",
  "unit": "Number",
  "value": 7069.0,
  "suppressed": []
}

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How filters work

Each filter is field=operator.value in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with ilike. Prefix not. to negate a filter, as not.eq.value.

OperatorWhat it matches
eq.valueEqual to the value.
neq.valueNot equal to the value. A blank cell does not match.
gt.valueGreater than the value.
gte.valueGreater than or equal to the value.
lt.valueLess than the value.
lte.valueLess than or equal to the value.
like.*text*Matches a pattern where * stands for any run of characters. Case-sensitive.
ilike.*text*The same as like, ignoring case.
in.(a,b,c)Equal to any value in the list. A value cannot contain a comma.
is.nullBlank in the source, or suppressed by the publisher.
ParameterWhat it does
selectFields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent.
orderfield.asc or field.desc, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent.
limitRows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent.
offsetRows to skip. The next URL in each answer sets it for you.
groupOn aggregate, fields to group by, comma-separated.
metricOn aggregate, count, sum.field, avg.field, min.field or max.field, comma-separated. count when absent.
formatjson, ndjson or csv. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers.

Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put versions/<date>/ before rows or aggregate for an answer that never changes. /api/v1/datasets/<slug>/versions lists the loaded versions. The 1 newest version is loaded; versions lists them.

The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a Retry-After header, a RateLimit-Policy header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same RateLimit-Policy. A client should wait the Retry-After seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. openapi.json describes this dataset's query paths for client generators and agents.

https://publicdata.au/mcp is a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP with the same tools, defined in the same place, so a tool added to the pages is added here too. It needs no key and no account. The row tools are held to the query API's limit of 60 queries in 10 seconds from one address, and each call is two queries because it also counts the matching rows. Add it to Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp, add the URL in Claude as a custom connector, or give it to any client that connects to remote MCP servers. Each queryable dataset is also a resource at https://publicdata.au/d/<slug>/fields.json, which lists its fields with their types, the publisher's descriptions, their ranges and the values they hold, so an agent can read a dataset's shape before it writes a query.

What changed

One version for every release the publisher has made since this site started following the dataset. The date is the day the file changed on the portal.

versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (5.2 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)

Questions

How do I download Family and domestic violence hospitalisations by relationship to perpetrator as a CSV file?

Open https://publicdata.au/d/au-fdv-hospitalisations/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/au-fdv-hospitalisations/v/2026-08-06/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.

Can I open Family and domestic violence hospitalisations by relationship to perpetrator in Excel?

Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/au-fdv-hospitalisations/v/2026-08-06/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 256 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/au-fdv-hospitalisations/v/2026-08-06/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.

What years does Family and domestic violence hospitalisations by relationship to perpetrator cover?

The current version covers the years since 2020. Each release from AIHW becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online.

How often is Family and domestic violence hospitalisations by relationship to perpetrator updated?

AIHW releases it yearly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.

Can I use Family and domestic violence hospitalisations by relationship to perpetrator commercially?

Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file.

Is this the official source for Family and domestic violence hospitalisations by relationship to perpetrator?

No. The publisher is Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and its page is https://www.aihw.gov.au/copyright. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.xlsx with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared.

What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version as source.xlsx so the change can be checked.