Improved research is essential. Research priorities for
understanding the magnitude of sexual violence prevalence include
assessment of the prevalence and patterns of sexual violence victimisation and perpetration in a range of settings, across a range of
acts of sexual violence, in men and women, in adults and children,
using methodologies based on best practice in gender-based violence
research and standard measures of different forms of sexual violence;
research on the social context of sexual violence perpetration and
victimisation by both men andwomen; and methodological research
to measure sexual violence for particular population sub-groups or
violence types, such as child perpetrators or young child victims, or
sexual harassment at work and schoo